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A Face Full of Snow
Snow began floating down as I started this blog post, a story of snow and winter sports, of humour in the trials and tribulations of learning to ski.
I couldn't have written this book without first living it.
- To have the experience of falling over in a tangle of ski equipment and feeling like a stranded bug in the snow.
- To know what it's like to walk in ski boots, with unruly skis and poles sliding off my shoulder.
- To be scooped up by a ski lift, and deposited at the top of the ski slope where the options were to ski or fall over.
- To learn to snowplough only to hit an unforgiving patch of ice and slide away at the whim of the mountain.
- But the exhilaration of when everything came together, snowplough controlling my speed, skis going in the direction I told them, that is the joy that I poured into this book, with the added imagination of Iver No-Idea and HB gatecrashing the holiday...
Rewrites
How many rewrites does it take to make a book? I’ll let you know when it’s finished… maybe.
...would it be so bad to let some of the plates crash to the floor?
Let’s do this, let’s pull up a new blank page and fill it with words
Writing a best seller – is it something to aim for, or is it something magical that happens?
As a self publisher you’ve likely already come up against some sort of barrier in traditional publishing.
Happy Book Birthday to The Monster Under |The Bed
...and the letters will form words and make a story.
...and this week I'm playing with watercolour.
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