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Background to writing

January 13, 2011 · 12:05 pm

About MY blog!

I asked a fellow Twitter follower what he thought of my blog and this is his reply:

JFbookman Joel Friedlander @ @Riduna Diana, your blog is lovely and very personal, thanks for sharing it.

I thanked him for the positive feedback because before I introduce my next theme I would just like to focus on the way my blog is written. Many blogs, especially those about writing, are written in the third person, those which advise or inform us of important points to remember or think about. I find them useful and challenging at times and it was not until I got Joel’s comment that I realised just why my blog is different.

As my blurb explains, I began this blog to write about my personal views and experiences. I have a diary blog alongside, which is a useful record of what’s happening in my writing world but I love my theme blog, especially because it gives me a platform to share anything that’s on my mind which I feel is worth sharing.

This is particularly important to explain before my next theme, the first item of which I will publish next week:

My Writing- Planning a novel

My writing- Research

My writing- Proof reading

If you read them you will not get advice, because I feel I have no authority to advise. You will only read an honest account of my personal journey into writing.

OK?

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October 31, 2010 · 11:13 am

The Final Chapter Syndrome

I remarked to my long suffering husband the other day that I was reluctant to write the last two chapters of the novel i’m working on at the moment. I have spent endless hours checking details, carrying out more research, proof reading and rewriting sections but I cannot bring myself to write the end.

My husband’s response was, ‘You were like that the last time’ and that got me thinking as to whether there was any pattern and whether other authors feel the same.

‘It’s like it’s your own private world and you want to prolong living in it,’ he tried to explain and anyone who read ‘Men From Mars, Women from Venus’ will understand me when I say that I wasn’t really asking for a solution, just remarking on a state of my mind.

Having said that I think he’s got a point. The first time I gave the completed version of ‘Riduna’ to friends to read it was like handing over a baby. I know that I will feel a sense of loss as well as a great sense of acheivement when it’s complete, but I suppose it’s that feeling of emptiness which will drive me on to begin the next one. Anyone else out there feel the same?

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October 23, 2010 · 4:10 pm

A Facebook Reflection

What can I say about Facebook? Whereas on Twitter my Followers are predominantly ‘strangers’, some of whom admittedly now feel like good friends and I look forward to interacting with them on a regular basis, on the other hand my Facebook contacts are family, friends and people I know though different areas of my life.

At first I found it difficult to write about everyday happenings in my life mixed up with news about my writing until my niece helped me to set up an author page. Although this helped, it still seemed so interconnected to my ‘Diana Jackson’ home page that eventually I set up another page which is just for close friends and family with restricted access. I just have to remember all the passwords!

Truly I have to admit that I have not got the hang of Facebook. It has been great to post a record of events with pictures and newspaper cutting telling the story of the launch of my first novel ‘Riduna’  but I’m not sure what purpose the page serves apart from repeating the stuff I put on my blogs in a more accessible place. It is a way of connecting to family and friends all over the world on one site, and it’s fun to join in a dialogue and connect with several people at the same time, but I have an inkling that I have yet to discover its full potential.

Anyway, if you’d like to join my Facebook Page or my Diana Jackson Author page or even just check it out you’d be more than welcome!

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