WHERE DO I START MY STORY?

Whenever, I’m going to begin a new story, I always start with a head full of ideas…and a big piece of blank paper. I ask myself a lot of questions – the two main ones being: What’s going to happen in my story? Who do I want to tell my story? WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN [...]

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WRITING TIPS FROM US WRITER, JENNIFER BROWN – Author of ‘Hate List’

US author Jennifer Brown was one of the fabulous hosts of my Letters to Leonardo blog tour back in July. So I’m thrilled to welcome her today to talk about how she wrote her gripping new YA novel, Hate List. So, Jen, what is Hate List about? Five months ago, Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend, Nick, opened [...]

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WHERE DO STORY AND CHARACTER NAMES COME FROM – WELCOME CLAIRE SAXBY – Author of newly released Sheep, Goat and The Creaking Gate

Welcome Claire Saxby, who is visiting us as part of a blog tour for her fabulous new picture book “Sheep, Goat and The Creaking Gate”.    Names are so important in books and Claire is going to talk to us about how she comes up with names for her stories and the characters in them. [...]

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CLAIRE SAXBY IS HERE TOMORROW – talking about her new picture book, “Sheep, Goat and the Creaking Gate”

Can’t wait for tomorrow when my good friend and fellow author, Claire Saxby drops in to talk about her wonderful new picture book, Sheep, Goat and the Creaking Gate. Claire is going to give us some great tips on how she comes up with names for her characters and her books. Drop in and say, ‘Hi’. [...]

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WRITING TIPS FROM AWARD WINNING POET – Welcome Lorraine Marwood

To celebrate the release this week of her beautiful new verse novel, “Star Jumps” (It comes out today in fact), Lorraine Marwood has dropped in to give us some writing tips. As a former judge of the Dorothea MacKellar Poetry Awards, can you tell us a bit about what the experience meant to you as [...]

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Dale Harcombe’s Tips for Young Writers

Dale Harcombe, author of The Goanna Island Mystery has dropped in for a chat about how she wrote the book – and she has some tips on how she writes. The Goanna Island Mystery is a great read for those who enjoy suspense and interesting characters. I asked Dale some questions on how she wrote [...]

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MY WRITING TIPS – 10 yo reveals my secrets

Nicholas White is an award winning ten-year-old writer who writes because he enjoys it. He is currently working on a humorous fantasy trilogy with a very unlikely hero.  He asked me some interesting questions about the way I write.  Nicholas:      Where do you get your ideas from?   Dee:             I get my ideas from everywhere. [...]

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STORY IDEAS

I’m Dee, and I write for kids and young adults. Welcome to my blog. Blogging is as new to me as writing may be to some of you. You may have been wanting to write for ages, and have so many story ideas bubbling away inside you,  just as I always do. I often wake [...]

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