Showing posts with label Barbarian Prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbarian Prize. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2008

Feeling The Past

I have often wondered how my fellow writers come upon their ideas for their novels. Do they perchance just have a flash of inspiration, or is it far simpler than that - maybe a particular person, a book they read, or a TV show or movie they watch fires their imagination and helps them formulate a plot for a new book. With me it is often a visit to some ancient historical site that sends my

Monday, May 19, 2008

Love and Lust

I have always been an avid reader. I�m sure that most writers must be because in my estimation you have to love books in order to want to write. I vividly remember reading my first romantic novel when I was in about my second or third year of senior school. I started reading Gone With the Wind on the bus on the way home from school on the Friday evening and read it all weekend until I finished it