Sheryl Gwyther's Blog
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| Blog Name: | Sheryl Gwyther's Blog |
| Url: | http://sherylgwyther.wordpress.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | writing, art, childrens books |
| Description: | I'm an Australian writer of children's stories, short stories and plays. Also likes to blog about the writing life and other things that take my fancy. Love to have you drop in when you can. :) |
| Popularity: | 22 Followers |
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Death beetles and dang-awful smell…
Do you enjoy doing research for your stories or articles? Or is it a chore. Interviewing people is another great way to get information, and if you’re lucky, the person is so interesting and/or quirky you can write an article about them. Several years ago I interviewed Warren at the Queensland Museum for an article I was writing for children’s magazines . His job required a strong stomach, careful hands, and working alone down in the bowels of the building. Warren was the resident keeper of the Dermestid beetles.
Do you enjoy doing research for your stories or articles? Or is it a chore. Interviewing people is another great way to get information, and if you’re lucky, the person is so interesting and/or quirky you can write an article about them. Several years ago I interviewed Warren at the Queensland Museum for an article I was writing for children’s magazines . His job required a strong stomach, careful hands, and working alone down in the bowels of the building. Warren was the resident keeper of the Dermestid beetles.
840 kittens … resurrected
Okay, I know I said this blog was just for writing matters BUT I have to get on my soapbox just one more time in 2008. So that’s what I posted on Christmas eve in 2008 – the issue is just as important at Christmas 2009. It’s almost Christmas Eve and Santa’s calling in on lots of good little boys and girls, but do you think Santa would be so stupid as to leave a cute puppy or kitten under the tree? No way, Jose! That jolly old gentleman has got more brains. Mind you, there are some responsible owners who will do the right thing for their fluffy, furry, hairy little bundle over i
Okay, I know I said this blog was just for writing matters BUT I have to get on my soapbox just one more time in 2008. So that’s what I posted on Christmas eve in 2008 – the issue is just as important at Christmas 2009. It’s almost Christmas Eve and Santa’s calling in on lots of good little boys and girls, but do you think Santa would be so stupid as to leave a cute puppy or kitten under the tree? No way, Jose! That jolly old gentleman has got more brains. Mind you, there are some responsible owners who will do the right thing for their fluffy, furry, hairy little bundle over i
Elbow room for verbs?
Have you ever succumbed to the temptation of not trusting verbs to do their job? Like if you really want the reader to know your hero ‘went slowly along the road‘ when he could’ve trudged, ambled, plodded, tramped, staggered, crawled … you get the picture? Maybe as you’ve developed as a writer you’ve become a bit of a ‘adverb-Nazi’? Scouring your manuscripts for those haughty, naughty adverbs? Sniffing them out in a Search and Destroy mission with the t
Have you ever succumbed to the temptation of not trusting verbs to do their job? Like if you really want the reader to know your hero ‘went slowly along the road‘ when he could’ve trudged, ambled, plodded, tramped, staggered, crawled … you get the picture? Maybe as you’ve developed as a writer you’ve become a bit of a ‘adverb-Nazi’? Scouring your manuscripts for those haughty, naughty adverbs? Sniffing them out in a Search and Destroy mission with the t
VICTORY IS OURS!
Aussie children's books rule! Just like no one likes a sore loser, no one likes a cocky winner! But, allow me the relief a good shout of victory brings. We have won our battle against Parallel Importation of Books in a resounding victory – this morning the ALP Cabinet and Caucus decided not to follow the Productivity Commission’s recommendations to scrap them. Many in the publishing industry
Aussie children's books rule! Just like no one likes a sore loser, no one likes a cocky winner! But, allow me the relief a good shout of victory brings. We have won our battle against Parallel Importation of Books in a resounding victory – this morning the ALP Cabinet and Caucus decided not to follow the Productivity Commission’s recommendations to scrap them. Many in the publishing industry
The lure of living history … and John Brown’s body
When you were a kid did you sing that song, John Brown’s body lies a-moulder’n in the grave? I remember wondering why people sang about a mouldy old corpse? Along the way somewhere as I became interested in history and other things, I got the message – this was an anti-slavery call to arms, a song about the famous abolitionist John Brown from the days before the American Civil War. US Marines attack John Brown's 'fort' Well, it turns out I was wrong. The song is a marching so
When you were a kid did you sing that song, John Brown’s body lies a-moulder’n in the grave? I remember wondering why people sang about a mouldy old corpse? Along the way somewhere as I became interested in history and other things, I got the message – this was an anti-slavery call to arms, a song about the famous abolitionist John Brown from the days before the American Civil War. US Marines attack John Brown's 'fort' Well, it turns out I was wrong. The song is a marching so
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