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Blog: Mel's Muse
Assertiveness Training: Ten Tips To A Stronger You
I’ve written, previously, about people pleasers and how we can go about managing conflicting priorities in specific situations. We talked about our need to expect respect, and how to promote dignity. Today I want to write about the art of assertiveness as a life style choice.
TAKING ON OTHER PEOPLE’S PROBLEMSA number of years ago,...
Posted at 18:18pm on 29th November 2008
Bereavement Poetry: Crossing The Bar By Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the following excerpt from my book, A Painful Post Mortem, one of the characters, Rosie, has been asked by her father to read a poem at her sister's funeral. Curious to remind herself of the long-forgotten verses, she looks out an old book before she goes to bed.
When the baby had been...
Posted at 21:50pm on 28th November 2008
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Successful Step Parenting: Do You Know What It Takes?
I’ve been asked by BBC Radio 5 Live if I would take part in a debate, arguing the case for the premiss Can A Step Parent Take The Place Of A Real Parent? The e-mail was from one of their producers, who said he’d found my book, Stepfamilies on a Google search. During the telephone...
Poetry For Grief - In The Silence Of Friends
Not everyone experiences the five stages of grieving: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance; and even if they do, they may find that they occur in a different order. But frequently, at just the point when we most need them, our friends seem to melt away. They have supported us in the early days with...
Posted at 17:39pm on 25th November 2008
Writing Your First Novel: How Viewpoint Affects Show & Tell
An understanding of how to use Viewpoint correctly is crucial to the success of writing your first novel. A history book may tell you about a particular event, or period in time, on either a personal level or a grand scale; a text book on psychology may inform you about behaviour; a self-help book...
Posted at 15:05pm on 23rd November 2008
Fun Christmas Quiz
In all this gloom and doom of recession, when everything’s going down, down, down, I thought it was time we all looked up, and had a bit of FUN.
QUIZ - 22nd November to 21st DecemberSo I’m going to run this Fun Christmas Quiz for a month 22nd November to 21st December. And as Christmas...
Coloured Christmas Lights Eclipsed By Child In The Manger
How long before 25th December should Christmas decorations go up? Every year it seems that they’re earlier and earlier. Especially shopping centre Christmas decorations. But this year, instead of being a cause for complaint from me, their premature appearance last week, in London, was a bonus, when my other half and I had to make...
Posted at 10:09am on 21st November 2008
Plotting Stories: Off-topic Blogs May Be The Best Growing Medium For Your Budding Novel
One of the benefits of modern technology is that, as a writer, you have more information at your finger tips about who is connecting with your blog personality, and which content for your blog attracts most readers, than ever you could in the real world. So it’s exciting to know that, since I began...
Do Grief & Loss Conform To A Pattern?
This article was revised and updated on 28th July, 2010
One of the most shocking aspects of attending the funeral of someone you loved is the sense of desolation you may feel afterwards. Everything in you has been working towards this moment, to such an extent that it has emptied your mind of everything else. This,...
Posted at 14:13pm on 18th November 2008
How To Hook Your Reader: Starting Your Story
Revised & Updated:
10th August, 2010
Right! You’re sitting in front of your computer to begin your novel, and you’re raring to go. You’ve read my article, Writing & Publishing A Book: Ten Tips Before You Begin, and identified your readers, as well as Fiction: Main Characters & How To Choose Them, so you know, as...
Posted at 18:04pm on 16th November 2008
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