http://barbara-good-books.com/blog Rising up with Wings Like Eagles Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:00:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Learning Curve. I didn’t know there was so much more I could do with the Golden Spiral and the Secret Rainbow. I sat down with it in front of me and imagined the movements and reactions of the crew. They came alive. They are best published together because one isn’t ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/91 POLISHING THE RAINBOW To bring about a much larger and more descriptive novel I’m returning to work on a Song at Rainbow’s End. This title is rather long but I prefer it because it appeals to my musical friends and also suggests the ‘pot of gold’ which represents a young life ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/87   One warm afternoon about 45 years ago, I rested an aching back on my bed while the children were at school. I wearily took up a magazine and read; ‘if you have a spare moment’ - I had and was bored, ‘write a letter to a grandchild not yet born’. ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/81     THE SHACK Plumbing the nature of God is a hazardous adventure but Wm Paul Young has attempted to do this out of his own pain. The results are a book – an allegory which pulls you up smartly.             We were told this was a book not to be missed. The sudden shift ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/72 July (just) It’s cold and rains have come. I wouldn’t grumble about the rain. At last I can say the trilogy is complete. Last Friday ‘the Golden Spiral’ came hot off the press. I gave it to some friends with trepidation and was surprised at the number of people who said ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/68 My teen novel on the Scilly Isles is nearing completion and it should be going to the printer well before the end of June. I feel I have achieved an improvement in writing since the second book of the trilogy. Now that we are on the third book I have ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/45 This is a strange spectrum of disorientated behavoir. our family have experienced the far end. This caused a breakdown in normal family life. i would like to hear from other people who have come up against it and collect information on what really worked. I'd like to hear from people who ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/28    When I started writing I was putting on paper what I had learnt about the Scilly Isles. I had contributed to some anthologies before that and had attended Women Writers of Western Australia. Many ideas were aired here but I found, after a while, I became too pressurised to continue. ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/24 I start blogging in trepidation. I want to say quite a lot about my writing and how my books grew because it is so important to me. As I progress, so I learn. My first book on the Scilly Isles was written with a very different slant. I was awed ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/12    This is quite a new experience. Writing my own blog and just a little intimidating. I shall survive. From the first of February I intend to write once a fortnight mostly about everyday life in Western Australia. Here we come under the postal address of Perth but we are closer ... http://barbara-good-books.com/blog/archives/8