Publishing is broken and there’s not enough time to fix it before my novel comes out. Two words keep coming to mind: Plan Accordingly. I wish I knew how.
In a secondary school I had to teach “Life Skills” classes that has no fixed curriculum, students had no exams, and every student passed simply by attending. I saw it as a chance to do lessons geared towards critical thinking.
While I’ve usually had at least one furball in my life, repeatedly moving between continents has meant having to resist expanding my furry friend group, until recently.
I read an interview with a writer who was asked to give advice to new writers, and the advice was simply “Writers write.” That’s what makes a writer. If you’ve ever tried to write a novel, you’d know it’s hard.
Sometimes these writing prompts aggravate me. This one was one of them. Stories, even flawed ones, represent the story that the author chose to tell.
There are three quotes that are favourites; two well-attributed to Monty Python and Douglas Adams, and one misattributed to both Mark Twain & Ambrose Bierce.
Living abroad (not tourism, which is heavily sanitized) will truly open your mind to what the world is, what makes us different, and what makes us all the same (more than you think).
Intellectually, no, I don’t believe everything happens for a reason. But emotionally, I feel that some things do happen for a reason. How do I reconcile that with my belief in free will? It’s a struggle. Read on…
I could cite Simon & Garfunkle, Johnny Clegg or a bunch of Beatles song lyrics, but I’m going to go with the Boss and two lines from Jungleland.
I decided that my way to Africa was as a teacher. It took two years to get everything sorted. And longer to get there. I was facing two big hurdles: I’d never taught, and I’d never lived in another culture.
