
Write Right
Writing Tip of the Week How to Make Your Writing More Colourful Figurative language to a writer is like a colour palette to an artist. It creates mental pictures with words that otherwise might fall flat. She was as plain as a slice of bread packs more punch than She was plain. Figurative language communicates emotional content, too. Consider When his girlfriend discovered his lies he hung his head in shame as opposed to When his girlfriend discovered his lies he was embarras

Moonshadow, A Love Story
Well, I've finally finished Moonshadow, which is why I have completely neglected my blog for months. Hope to find a publisher and have the novel out in 2019. The research for this brought me to tears at times. It certainly shone a light on the ridiculous assumption that one race and its society are superior to all others. Moonshadow is contemporary women's fiction with historical overtones, as it moves back and forth from the past to present day. It's about the colliding w