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Novel
Ideas, for a novel
When
you get novel ideas on vacations, say from Malaysia to Spain, Las Vegas
to
New Zealand, Morocco to Maldives - sometimes it's hard to remember when
you've come back off vacations, and you're back into day-to-day life,
just
what you've had ideas about.
It's
probably when somebody has jogged
your memory that you think.. ah ha, I know where that idea came from.
However, ideas are just the fuel, and it needs that spark of
inspiration to light it up. I've
been vacationing and travelling every opportunity I have throughout my
life. Luckily, I married a compatible soul, and we spent many years on
vacation together whenever work allowed us to.
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Unfortunately,
out-of-blue, I suffered a massive haemorrhage leading to a severe
stroke and was paralysed. It was an AVM, an Arteriovenous Malformation.
In
hindsight (a pun, no
less), it was a pretty good idea that I did travel when I did, before
the stroke happened. To Spain, Australia, Egypt,... the world was my
oyster. Though now, many years after the stroke, I have slowly
recovered with my husband's utmost belief in me, what was I going to do
with my life?
I was very short on the skills of most working
persons; I
couldn't walk, talk, read, write, remember (short term memory was
shot-to-pieces), paralysed on my right hand side ... after I suffered
the stroke. In truth, it was like I was back at the baby stage, all
having to start over again. Maybe if my thought processes
could
be ironed out a bit, perhaps creative writing might be an option, as in
write a novel.
Armed
with the
knowledge of the travels I had done, the ideas I got from the vacations
- I penned my first kids novel. Perleta Magic is
wonderfully quiet, giving me the time and space to formulate
ideas for a novel, discarding some ideas for even better ones.
| 2009: retracing my steps from 20
years ago |
Mt. Ruapehu, North Island, NZ
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Lake Taupo, North Island, NZ
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And,
I've now
written a series of kids novels.. but I prefer the word stories. It's
roughly based on my
travels
as a university student, all around New Zealand. But, I've set it prior
to 1886, where... penguins, pelicans, sea-snail (paua), human
natives, crows, wetas, spiders... have a whale-of-a-time, exploring
new places, trying different exotic foods, rescuing a friend or
fighting a foe? ... the twists and turns of the
story-line makes
suspenseful page-turners.
What
have snails, pearls, seaweed... got in common? I'll
leave you
guessing.
Or,
browse the titles on my PREVIEW pages: View To A Krill and
a second
book: No Time To Krill
(just click the front cover pictures). Great
for birthdays or bedtime reading.
| A VIEW TO A KRILL |
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A VIEW TO A KRILL
What could
be more enjoyable than scoffing a fresh catch of krill? An exciting and
hair-raising adventure of course!
A
delightful trio of penguins, a brother and his two sisters, plus their
pelican friend, set forth on a voyage of discovery to explore
neighbouring islands to meet strange and interesting creatures, try new
foods and see different landscapes…
…and also to find danger lurking in unseen corners, narrowly avoid been
eaten, and other thrills and spills along the way.
To add to the fun, they unwittingly come to the aid of another bird
where everything is not quite as it seems…
Friendship
matters when the stakes are high and everything appears to be against
you, especially in a foreign country where penguin might be on the
menu. |
| NO TIME TO KRILL |
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NO TIME TO KRILL
There's
nothing quite like a beach festival to round off an enjoyable holiday
that turned into an epic adventure: being bombed from the air, attacked
by huge insects, and avoiding becoming the next snack for a katipo
spider... hanging onto life by your flippers and saving a Prince from
certain doom was just the bonus. Being a penguin just gets better and
better.
What more
could sisters Twinkie and Flossie want, other than another plate of
barbequed squid?
They
join their older brother Colley and his Pelican mate Pelle to go forth
in the second half of the adventure and complete the quest that was
foretold a long time ago.
Along
with a cast of colourful characters, their journey is a wild ride to
the finish... where the only reward that matters is a very large
seafood dinner.
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Footnote:
Perleta
Magic
has been a revelation in terms of providing the perfect
ambience to foster the thought processes to write a book, any
book, be it cookbook, novel or whatever.
Some profess the
urge
for total isolation to begin to write a book, like on a hidden desert
island or obscure desert location, to supposedly have the tranquillity
needed for such a venture.
This location appears to be the perfect medium:
quiet enough but not too quiet. Deserts have scorpions, and
desert islands have sharks; neither have a supermarket and
bar/restaurant down the road. By contrast, our local wildlife consists
of colourful hoopoe birds
flitted about and a few rabbits in the pine trees - and eating and
drinking facilities within easy reach. Writers and authors
are most welcome here.
It's
a novel place to write one.
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