Writers of Fiction and Non-Fiction
Date April 30, 2015 Author By Sarada Thompson Category General
Well, it does! A few years ago, in Australia, John inadvertently deleted chapters of work on his laptop. All our combined attempts to retrieve the loss, failed. After much unprintable exasperated expressions, he finally reconciled this as an opportunity, to rewrite the lost passages and diligently save, at every pause. Last year, it happened to […]
Read MoreDate April 15, 2015 Author By John Thompson Category Brindavan Chronicles
I have read many accounts by established authors as to their writing practice, and they seem on the whole to fall into two groups. There are those who make detailed chapter summaries of how the book is going to go, and there are those who, although they know how the story is going to start […]
Read MoreDate April 8, 2015 Author By John Thompson Category Brindavan Chronicles, Publishing
One of the things that has always irritated me when reading books is coming across spelling or punctuation errors: ‘You’d think that professionals could get it right!’ I would think. ‘Don’t they employ editing assistants or something?’ You expect this sort of thing in newspapers, when everything has to be sorted in a few hours. […]
Read MoreDate April 3, 2015 Author By John Thompson Category General
There are so many things you find that are required when it comes to publishing that you never even thought of when you started on this long journey – perhaps just as well, or you might have given up right at the beginning! One of the things I hadn’t anticipated was the need for a […]
Read MoreDate April 1, 2015 Author By Sarada Thompson Category General
In Star Wars, there is a quote, “We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.” So it seems, with the passage of time, our son, the Web-Master and our daughter, the Senior Registered Nurse, are both, showing us the […]
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