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Diana Jackson

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  • Can You Leap Back into your Writing Life?

    Can you leap back? I’m not sure. I’m certainly striding forward in my hopes, dreams and aims for 2023. (see last post) Two weeks ago I searched for the unfinished manuscript for the third in my Mystery Inspired by History Series. (I finished writing it in October 2020, in lockdown, at the time I was…

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  • Islands of Inspiration (2) ~ Tinos 2022

    Two ferries from Sifnos, via Mykanos, and we arrived on Tinos; our second island in the Cyclades, chosen because it didn’t have an airport. Yet again we had no idea what to expect. We were self catering this time and our host suggested we pause our taxi to stock up in Tinos town; valuable advice…

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  • Virtual Tour around the main settings for my latest novel ~ real and imaginary

    MISSING Past and Present is unlike my previous novels because two of the main settings are imaginary. Why go to all that trouble? It challenges the imagination of the writer and the reader It will not offend a reader ~ in my murder mystery, set on my doorstep at the time in a village down…

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  • Light Bulb Moment of inspiration ~ Just a Sentence ~ then a Story Plan

    HAVE A NOTEBOOK AT ALL TIMES Do you have a notebook, or a plethora of notebooks to hand when inspiration for writing strikes? Sound advice! All it took was just a sentence popping unbidden into my mind: ‘While picking blackberries in the hedgerows one day, I found a dice.’ CHOOSE AN UNUSUAL PROTAGONIST I had…

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  • Challenge ~ Throw a Dice for Memories of a character in a book

    DICE MEMORIES CHALLENGE! IS LIFE JUST A ROLL OF A DICE? When Dot in ‘MISSING Past and Present’ threw a dice, she remembered scenes in her life as if they were pages in her own book. Her back story. AUTHORS ~ Think of a character in your book, or one of your novels that you…

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  • Margaret Skea ~ 5th of my Summer Special Interviews with Successful Indie Authors

    I’m so pleased to have this interview with author Margaret Skea which is aimed to appeal to writers, fans and potential readers alike. Margaret is a successful Indie Author of Historical Fiction. Hello Margaret, thank you for joining us today, Do you mind me asking, was the success in your writing career a gradual process…

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  • Maggi Andersen ~ 4th of my Summer Special Successful Indie Authors

    I’m so happy to welcome author Maggie Andersen to share her writing journey with us. She lives way over in Australia which just goes to prove that blogging brings the world together. This series of posts are aimed to appeal to writers, fans and potential readers alike. Maggi is a successful Indie Author of Regency…

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  • Anne Allen ~ 2nd Summer Special of Successful Indie Authors

    I’m especially pleased to have this interview with Anne Allen; a successful Indie Author of ‘The Guernsey Novels’. Being a lover of The Channel Islands I have read several of Anne’s books. I hope this will appeal to writers, fans and potential readers alike… Welcome on my blog Anne!  Thank you, Diana, I appreciate you…

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