Gayel Collinson Pen name Gracie Stathers. My Journey to writing fiction. I have always loved the stories my family told me, not stories read from books but real stories that are passed down from one generation to another embellished by some and adjusted by [...]
From Creative Beat (Creative Tauranga) Literary Trailblazers - December 2013/January 2014 Field Candy – writing about the land His name is particularly apt, for the young Field Candy discovered a natural affinity with the great outdoors. Brought up in the Thames Valley, he lived [...]
When I was young and single – with no kids and few responsibilities – I loved to sit in the pub with my mates and solve the world’s problems. We enjoyed plenty of discussion of ‘what they should do’ and, after a few tankards [...]
Funny how birthdays make you sit up and wonder. Mine was yesterday and after all these years I consider what correlation the 25th March has to do with the seasons. We are entering autumn in New Zealand, a time for leaves to stop receiving [...]
I have always written but it was always in schoolbooks, and then when I caught up with technology, on the computer. All these short stories, poems, wonderful children’s stories, all hidden in folders in the computer. There is something liberating in never having to [...]
I am not an author… yet I am a writer, I suppose, because I am trying to write a book. It all started about 15 years ago, when my kids were little, and Harry Potter had become a BIG craze. My husband and I [...]
I am always amazed how my brain can compose a blog but when I try to put it on paper, nothing happens. When putting up my hand to write a blog for Week Eight of Tauranga Writers 50th Anniversary celebration it seemed so simple. [...]
I first realised I had writing ability when I was in Form 2 at Otaki School, because of the encouragement of a good teacher, Mr McSweeny. He gave us essays to write and often read mine to the class. The essay to be written [...]
Day 2. Haven’t written anything for weeks. Maybe I have lost it? Daughter no. 2 is getting married at end of the month. She wants a wedding poem. A challenge; I could write about death, divorce, depression, the trials of parenthood. But something romantic? [...]
We are approaching the end of the first month of 2017, and I am still gathering blog posts for the rest of the year. February is all booked up but only half of March has someone assigned to a week. After March my year [...]