Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Tales From The Enchanted Forest: Week Four
Tales From The Enchanted Forest: Week Four: It's been an interesting, and busy, week. I discovered that exercise really is good for you! "Really?" I hear you ask, wit...
Week Four
It's been an interesting, and busy, week.
I discovered that exercise really is good for you!
"Really?" I hear you ask, with a raised eyebrow and a look of disbelief on your face.
Yes really. Let me explain. I was working away at Chapter 6 and it had gone well but - there's always a 'but' when you are writing - I needed to resolve the chapter and although I had plenty of ideas none of them were all that interesting.
So, I put my pen down and headed for my spinning class. I can't say I enjoy spinning, the best bit is finishing, but I'm sure it must be good for..
"Put all your thoughts away and concentrate on the class," yelled the instructor, over some modern crooners that seemed to repeat one sentence by yelling it at the tops of their voices interminably over a loud, but distinctive, beat (as a reasonably accomplished lyricist I find the lyrical nonsense in modern 'pop' songs rather abhorrent, however, that's not what this blog is about!).
I'll be quite honest, if I concentrated on peddling for 45 minutes I'd never make it through the class, so instead I imagined that I was cycling through the Enchanted Forest with my cast and, lo and behold, a resolution came to me in a flash.
"Are you alright, Peter?" my instructor called over the thumping beat.
I realised that I'd just sat up, put my hands on my chest and let out a yell and she thought I was having a heart attack! She thought my yell of joy at my revelation was a cry of pain - just goes to show how this modern music distorts reason!
Anyway, job done, I got home and finished chapter 6 satisfactorily and proved that exercise really is good for you. Mind you, I've no idea what it does for my body, but my brain certainly benefits!!
I discovered that exercise really is good for you!
"Really?" I hear you ask, with a raised eyebrow and a look of disbelief on your face.
Yes really. Let me explain. I was working away at Chapter 6 and it had gone well but - there's always a 'but' when you are writing - I needed to resolve the chapter and although I had plenty of ideas none of them were all that interesting.
So, I put my pen down and headed for my spinning class. I can't say I enjoy spinning, the best bit is finishing, but I'm sure it must be good for..
"Put all your thoughts away and concentrate on the class," yelled the instructor, over some modern crooners that seemed to repeat one sentence by yelling it at the tops of their voices interminably over a loud, but distinctive, beat (as a reasonably accomplished lyricist I find the lyrical nonsense in modern 'pop' songs rather abhorrent, however, that's not what this blog is about!).
I'll be quite honest, if I concentrated on peddling for 45 minutes I'd never make it through the class, so instead I imagined that I was cycling through the Enchanted Forest with my cast and, lo and behold, a resolution came to me in a flash.
"Are you alright, Peter?" my instructor called over the thumping beat.
I realised that I'd just sat up, put my hands on my chest and let out a yell and she thought I was having a heart attack! She thought my yell of joy at my revelation was a cry of pain - just goes to show how this modern music distorts reason!
Anyway, job done, I got home and finished chapter 6 satisfactorily and proved that exercise really is good for you. Mind you, I've no idea what it does for my body, but my brain certainly benefits!!
Friday, 16 February 2018
Week Three
TALES FROM THE ENCHANTED FOREST
Well, it's been a couple of weeks since my last update but that doesn't mean I've been lazing, oh no, quite the opposite.
The radio interview was broadcast and sales of my latest book, Brownie Pack Holiday, improved for a few days afterwards, proving that people do listen to local radio, which is great news. Also, I have been booked for a story-time reading at my local library for April, and have booked stalls at a few village fetes throughout Cambridgeshire, roll on summer.
So, how's the new book coming on?
It's coming on well, I have completed the first five chapters, and written just under 18,000 words now and will crack on next week with chapter six.
A funny thing happened this week while I was writing chapter five, a new character invited himself into my story and stayed. I wasn't planning on him being in the book at all; in fact, I wasn't even thinking about him at the time and he just insinuated himself into the story and wouldn't leave.
His name is Robin Goodfellow, you may have heard of him from another story by a certain Mr Shakespeare, and now he's turned up here. As you can see from his picture, he is very mischievous and, I think, he will add some fun to this story, so I've decided to let him stay on the basis that he doesn't get too naughty!
Well, it's been a couple of weeks since my last update but that doesn't mean I've been lazing, oh no, quite the opposite.
The radio interview was broadcast and sales of my latest book, Brownie Pack Holiday, improved for a few days afterwards, proving that people do listen to local radio, which is great news. Also, I have been booked for a story-time reading at my local library for April, and have booked stalls at a few village fetes throughout Cambridgeshire, roll on summer.
So, how's the new book coming on?
It's coming on well, I have completed the first five chapters, and written just under 18,000 words now and will crack on next week with chapter six.
A funny thing happened this week while I was writing chapter five, a new character invited himself into my story and stayed. I wasn't planning on him being in the book at all; in fact, I wasn't even thinking about him at the time and he just insinuated himself into the story and wouldn't leave.
His name is Robin Goodfellow, you may have heard of him from another story by a certain Mr Shakespeare, and now he's turned up here. As you can see from his picture, he is very mischievous and, I think, he will add some fun to this story, so I've decided to let him stay on the basis that he doesn't get too naughty!
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Week Two
TALES FROM THE ENCHANTED FOREST
Good evening, how has your week been?
Mine has been busy, I've been writing hard and I have nearly finished writing chapter four in the new book, so it's progressing well.
I did have a storyline problem this week, I was struggling how to start chapter four. I knew where I wanted to go and, of course, I knew where my stating point was, having written chapter three, trouble is, I was struggling to decide how to get from A to B.
As with always, there is more than one way to get from A to B and I decided to just start writing and see where the story would take me so, on Tuesday morning I started writing and, lo and behold, the story took me where it wanted to go and I got to exactly where I wanted to be, in a way that took me a bit by surprise. It was almost as if the story was writing itself - maybe there are Fairies after all and maybe they are helping me write the book - you know what I say to people who say they don't believe in Fairies? You may have stopped believing in Fairies but they've never stopped believing in you! Makes you think, doesn't it!
During the week I recorded an interview for Cambridge 105 radio station for broadcast on their Drive Time program. I don't know when it will be broadcast but as soon as I know I'll post it on My Enchanted Forest Facebook page. For those of you who cannot pick up Cambridge 105 I will also post a link to the podcast when I have it. I listened back to the interview the other day, it sounds good.
I also wrote a three part magazine article entitled The Road to Becoming a Children's Author. The title, I think, is self explanatory, no need to explain its content!
That's all for now, see you next week
Good evening, how has your week been?
Mine has been busy, I've been writing hard and I have nearly finished writing chapter four in the new book, so it's progressing well.
I did have a storyline problem this week, I was struggling how to start chapter four. I knew where I wanted to go and, of course, I knew where my stating point was, having written chapter three, trouble is, I was struggling to decide how to get from A to B.
As with always, there is more than one way to get from A to B and I decided to just start writing and see where the story would take me so, on Tuesday morning I started writing and, lo and behold, the story took me where it wanted to go and I got to exactly where I wanted to be, in a way that took me a bit by surprise. It was almost as if the story was writing itself - maybe there are Fairies after all and maybe they are helping me write the book - you know what I say to people who say they don't believe in Fairies? You may have stopped believing in Fairies but they've never stopped believing in you! Makes you think, doesn't it!
During the week I recorded an interview for Cambridge 105 radio station for broadcast on their Drive Time program. I don't know when it will be broadcast but as soon as I know I'll post it on My Enchanted Forest Facebook page. For those of you who cannot pick up Cambridge 105 I will also post a link to the podcast when I have it. I listened back to the interview the other day, it sounds good.
I also wrote a three part magazine article entitled The Road to Becoming a Children's Author. The title, I think, is self explanatory, no need to explain its content!
That's all for now, see you next week
Week One
TALES FROM THE ENCHANTED FOREST
Good evening and happy new year to you all, even though we are now three weeks into 2018.
For those of you who don't know me I am the author and illustrator of the children's book series, Tales From The Enchanted Forest, which currently consists of two books, Arrival and Brownie Pack Holiday, and one colouring and activity book.
During 2018 book three will be published, writing on this book began at the beginning of January, and a second colouring book will completed, which will include pictures from the books to colour in and a whole load of new pictures especially drawn for the colouring book.
A question I often get asked when I'm on presenting Tales From The Enchanted Forest at events is 'Why write children's book?'
Well, it's complicated.
No, not really 😀, I have loved reading since I was a child and I used to tell my children stories all the time when they were small to encourage them to read books themselves. Today they are avid readers.
So, the purpose of this blog is?
Ah yes, sorry, I do get easily side-tracked. Well, the principal reason is to keep you up to date on the current writing and illustration projects, the secondary reason is, of course, to sell books, all of which are available from Amazon, either as a book, with real paper - don't you just love that smell of a new book? - or you can download a copy for your Kindle, or your tablet/mobile with the Kindle app.
Actually, who am I kidding, the main reason for this blog is to encourage you to buy copies of my books.
Good evening and happy new year to you all, even though we are now three weeks into 2018.
For those of you who don't know me I am the author and illustrator of the children's book series, Tales From The Enchanted Forest, which currently consists of two books, Arrival and Brownie Pack Holiday, and one colouring and activity book.
During 2018 book three will be published, writing on this book began at the beginning of January, and a second colouring book will completed, which will include pictures from the books to colour in and a whole load of new pictures especially drawn for the colouring book.
A question I often get asked when I'm on presenting Tales From The Enchanted Forest at events is 'Why write children's book?'
Well, it's complicated.
No, not really 😀, I have loved reading since I was a child and I used to tell my children stories all the time when they were small to encourage them to read books themselves. Today they are avid readers.
So, the purpose of this blog is?
Ah yes, sorry, I do get easily side-tracked. Well, the principal reason is to keep you up to date on the current writing and illustration projects, the secondary reason is, of course, to sell books, all of which are available from Amazon, either as a book, with real paper - don't you just love that smell of a new book? - or you can download a copy for your Kindle, or your tablet/mobile with the Kindle app.
Actually, who am I kidding, the main reason for this blog is to encourage you to buy copies of my books.
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