Welcome back Tash. It seems that this site has spawned a bunch of budding writers of late. I know Claire Louise is busy writing a book at the moment, and I’m playing around with a few ideas myself too.
I’m starting to believe that Claire (Ridgeway) has cast a spell over us all. a sort of “Izzy wizzy come on guys and girls get busy and write a book” spell.
It’s a humbling experience that others have taken up the challenge of writing a book too. I guess nothing is impossible if you believe in yourself.
Writing a book is fairly easy, it’s the research that is really the main stumbling block for most people, but if you truly want to do it you will.

Well done Tash. I know that my first attempt at writing any thing more than a bog standard story made me feel very jittery, you know the usual type of things, the main one being that everyone is going to laugh at me, if I put this on the forum (my Vivat Anne story). I’m glad I screwed up my nerve and did it, as no one has laughed at it in fact I’m more surprized that people actually read it. I am thinking of ways to improve it a little too,and I think it’s good to have earlier work to draw from as it gives you the courage and determination to make your next work better. I am working on something at the moment as well, enough said, but lets just say it’s hard work, but worth every bit of it.
I agree what Claire has started here is a wonderful thing, as we Tudorians now have a place we can call our own, and as I’ve told Claire in the past I am amazed at just how many champions there are for Anne from all over the world I rather think that Anne would be tickled pink to know she has so many champions too. I feel that our home here offers Claire a little re-assurance at times too, as I know she is up to her eyes in her own project at the moment, and our home gives her a time out from time to time. I’m not sure what she makes of some of my comments though? but I hope they give her the odd giggle.
It’s good to have you back Tash, although you do have a lot to catch up on.
Don’t you find it strange that of all the Kings and Queens that England has had, it’s Anne B that is the most famous of all, next in line of course is Elizabeth, I often wonder just what they could have acheieved together if Anne had still been alive when Elizabeth accended the throne? But then having said that maybe Elizabeth wouldn’t have been as all powerful as she was if Anne had been alive? Anne’s whole life had and still has meaning in short she was an amazing, courageous woman. I view her as a Tudorian version of Emmerline Pankhurst, a champion of woman rights, and equality.
She took on the most powerful man in the kingdom and beat him at his own game. It may have cost her, her life but the seeds of woman’s rights were already sown in the hearts and minds of the woman of Tudor England and they grew and flourished, without Anne I feel that today woman would still be considered as weak, and not able to compete in the dog eat dog world we have today.

Boleyn said

I’m starting to believe that Claire (Ridgeway) has cast a spell over us all. a sort of “Izzy wizzy come on guys and girls get busy and write a book” spell.

Ack!!

i`m still suffering with Mary-Sue-Dom.. all my writings read like self-insert fan-dom crap..