Storytime

To start the new year - 2019 - I thought I would share my A - Z of Writing. ACCOUNTABILITY Yep, there is no one else to blame. No matter what is happening around you or to you...if you want to write you will. Whether it's a few minutes here, ten minutes there...there is always some precious minutes you can use. It all depends on you. So before you blame anyone else for having NO TIME, look at yourself first. Too much phone, internet, television...put that time into your words. BALANCE Follows on from the above. There has to be a balance between family, friends, work and what life throws at us. But once again, we can moan and groan about it all..or do something about it. At times we will want to write, at other times we won't...accept it without the guilt and move on. CRITIQUE Find that perfect reader (or readers).  Someone you trust to tell you the truth. It's lovely if family/ friends tell you that 'it's the best thing I've ever read'. Great...

Most of you know I do like my garden...in fact I like anyone's garden. So when I venture off to ooh and aahh over other's works of greenery art, I happily snap away. Only to return home with a lot of photos and a desire to change, add or construct in my own plot. It has taken me a long time to finally realise that although I admire, love and covet what others have and how they garden...it's not always for me. I go and admire something like this. My potting area is a shambles and our deck looks like this... With a few more pots... actually a lot more pots on it. I fell in LOVE with this dragon...how awesome! and I have this.. Actually I do have another dragon who is AWESOME...and a dragon pot!    yet so different. I fell in love with the creative way this gardener set out their planting... Mine are in an assorted tumble of pots on the deck. Now it has taken a long time for me to understand that while I totally admire and love ...