Does this explain where I get my urge to write from?
In researching my family tree on Ancestry.com
I discovered a skeleton with a ruffle and a name EVERY writer I know wished they had connection to!
So imagine my BUZZ and my grin when I was assured I was right!
This is the linage:
Alyssa Daune Gray (1963- ) ME
I’m the daughter of
Lorna Edith Smart (1928 – )
who is the daughter of
Walter Middlemas Smart (1886 – 1970)
son of
Thomas H Smar…
♥ slow dance ♥
Received: Friday, 11 March, 2011, 11:03:11 AM
I have read this and forwarded it before … and it’s back again.
Whether the girl is or is not with us still or even if she ever was, this message is
and it’s a great message and well worth continuing to circulate!
This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer in a New York Hospital.
It was sent by her medical doctor. She wanted to se…
The Wynne Prize Debate - my opinion
The Wynne Prize – Is it OK to copy another painting?
The group Painters In Modern Times posed this question? in a forum for comment
re 
Spot the difference … Boatmen Moored on the Shore of a Lake by Adam Pynacker, circa 1660 and (right) Proposal for Landscaped Cosmos by Sam Leach
Dare I enter into the fray?
being the Host of :The Exceptional Ekphrasis Group":http://w…
♠☼Ü SEASON'S GREETINGS! Ü☼♠
Just a 
posy to all my bubble mates
to wish you a very 
- and a Stunningly 
-
With for good measure a customary Christmas Tree 
- and a few 
to drape about! ☼Ü☼
and in case there are any little ones about learning the truth of the jolly red bloke 
-
I’m off for a few weeks starting Boxing day (home for the 8th) actually having a holiday (I think!) so I hope you all play nice while I’m gon…
Thank Goodness for Training!
An Amazing Experience that could have been dramatically worse!
G’day Bookers! ☼Ü☼
How’d your first summer weekend go?
Mine ended up chasing an ambulance for 3 hours to hospital
- well my son was in the back!
After a terriffic BLUDGE camp at Port Welshpool (Gippsland Vic – just above Wilson’s Prom) while we were packing up son Red and a few mates got into a tangle with a spr…
The final countdown: A pep talk from Lindsey
G’day People’s of the Pen!
THIS IS IT!!!! 2 hours to go!
GO GO GO GO GO YOU CAN DO IT! ☼Ü☼
*This is it, Wrimos!
The moment when you defy the limits of what is possible; when your lungs are burning from the effort and your muscles tremble with exertion. You’ve got sweat in your eyes and stains on your shirt but it just doesn’t matter—-‘cause you’re in it to …
A Final Pepmail - from Dave Eggers
G’day Peoples of the Pen!
♠☼ PROCRASTINATION thy name is mine! ☼♠
Oh man am I a procrastinator!
I have a mantra that reminds me to get on with living!
☼ “Today is the Tomorrow I waited for Yesterday!” ☼
mind you it’s nice to know I’m not alone! Would you like to go for coffee and we can chat about it? ☼Ü☼
*Dear NaNoWriMo Author,
Is procrastination a problem for you? Reall…
Nanowrimo Home Stretch!
G’day Peoples of the Pen!
The last word from Lauren the Melbourne Leader to help us Wrimo’s to fuinish up!
Hello lovely Wrimos!
If you have already reached 50k, validation is now available on the site. Go forth and get your purple bar! (And, if you haven’t already donated, a golden halo is the perfect complement to a purple bar…)
The last few write-ins are as follows:
Comple…
Week Four - Last Weekend!
G’day Peoples of the Pen!
Last Pepmail from the Wrimo support team manager – Lindsey Grant
Dearest Wrimos,
We have one weekend left in our month-long mission to write a novel. If your experience has been anything like mine, you are still behind, it has been an insanely busy week with work or – if you are in the US – Thanksgiving, and the novel needs some serious love over t…
Quit Writing by Lemony Snicket
G’day Peoples of the Pen!
Yep that’s the witt that is the brilliance of this author!
Who else would write such as the final Pepmail to a marathon book writing event?
*Dear Cohort,
Struggling with your novel?
Paralyzed by the fear that it’s nowhere near good enough?
Feeling caught in a trap of your own devising?
You should probably give up.
For one thing, writing is a dying form. O…