by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jun 25, 2022 | Indie Publishing, The Dralfynia Sagas, Writing for Children and Young Adults
A while ago I wrote a blog about why I loved the character of Witchy Wu, who is one of the villains in the Sabrina Summers trilogy. Today I am writing about the inspiration behind one of the other villains, Prince Donaldo. This larger-than-life character is borrowed...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jun 12, 2021 | Big Boots, Indie Publishing, Travel Writing, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing for Children and Young Adults
Last weekend I went to the ballet with a very inspiring friend. We were chatting about my fairly-new full-time and full-on job and she asked how I was managing to keep up with my writing. “Do you just wait for the weekend?” she said. The answer, of course,...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Feb 19, 2020 | Writing for Children and Young Adults
I’m really excited to be working with a group of Rapaki Rangers (a Girl Guide division in Christchurch, New Zealand) this Saturday. They are running a girl-led event which they have called “Girl Esteem” and their aims are to help girl guides: • Be balanced – To...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jan 30, 2020 | The Dralfynia Sagas, Writing, Writing for Children and Young Adults
I first joined the Brownies when I was 7 or 8 years old, when my father was stationed in West Berlin in what was then West Germany. I moved onto the Girl Guides both there and in Telford, England. I wasn’t the most dedicated, but even decades later, I can still...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Sep 17, 2019 | Cats, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing for Children and Young Adults
When I first went freelance a few years ago, I was grateful for the chance to work stress-free and uninterrupted. I reckoned without my two rescue cats – Cleo and Twinkle. Here is a typical day. 6:15am Alarm. Writer gets up to make tea. Cleo and Twinkle rush to show...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Mar 8, 2018 | Writing for Children and Young Adults
When I first started teaching, back in the 1990s, I mainly taught teenagers. It used to grieve me to see so many young women behaving as they and their futures and careers were less important than those of the boyfriends they so desperately wanted. Those experiences...
