October 5, 2024
Welcome to another 6 Degrees of Separation. Kate from booksaremyfavouriteandbest provides the name of a book. Link that title to another in any way your brain makes connections. Repeat until you have created a chain of six books in addition to the one that started it all. Let us know where you ended up! This […]
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October 1, 2024
Who fascinates you? Perhaps it’s an ancestor you’ve learned you have something in common with. Maybe it’s someone who didn’t fit the mold of the time and society in which they lived. It might be someone you still know well in your own life today. It could even be you. My current fascination is with […]
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September 30, 2024
I recently had a friend tell me her son had created an imaginary world, but was worried about not being able to get his creative ideas out of his head. I love encouraging and supporting into young writers, so I’m developing a series of prompts to help him share the world he’s creating. Maybe these […]
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September 30, 2024
What do Jackie French, Dav Pilkey and Agatha Christie have in common? Yes, they are all well-established and popular writers. They also all have dyslexia. And they are featured in Brilliant Minds: 30 Dyslexic Heroes who Changed Our World, written by Shannon Meyerkort and illustrated by Amy Blackwell. Shannon initially wrote her book Brilliant Minds for […]
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September 2, 2024
I recently realised that ten years has passed since I published my first (very brief) blog post, here on Treefall Writing. Turns out that so much can change in 10 years, and so much can stay the same. This has prompted me to think about time in the context of memoir and family history. So, […]
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July 6, 2024
Each month, I join other book lovers who all start with the same title (thanks to Kate from booksaremyfavouriteandbest), create links to six other books and see where we end up. It’s easy and it’s fun, so feel free to join in wherever you are! This month’s starting book is the 2024 Booker Prize winner, […]
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July 2, 2024
Have you thought about compiling a family history but don’t know where to start? Writers are often advised to write what they know or are curious about. Not everyone agrees with this, but perhaps there’s some wisdom in it, or in the case of family history, start with yourself (the person in your family tree […]
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June 29, 2024
In his book The Novel Project, Graeme Simsion mentions the questionnaires we can find and fill out to get to know our characters – but he doesn’t use them. He says, “There are real people I’ve known for years whose star sign and preferred drink I wouldn’t be able to tell you. If a character […]
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