Posted on 5th Sep, 2017
Hello-World!
I’m exhilarated! Finally a website! It’s taken nine years of dedicated writing to build a range of published books to showcase. And now another personal development challenge – a blog! How do you blog? What to blog? What do my readers want to know? What is interesting?
My passion is writing, my love gardening and nature my beautiful. My editor insists, “You can’t write my beautiful. Where’s the noun?” But when I gaze from my window, all I see is ‘beautiful’ and the perfection of nature that I claim as my own. Carpeted mountains anchor their bums into the inland sea. Three main mountains stand sentinel: Stokes (Poro-rangi – the end of the sky) centre, Kiwi to its left and Manaroa right. Then there are my residents – the oystercatcher pair screeching their headlong high sounds, two wild black swans gliding like king and queen up a sea-feeding stream. Black shags submarine the bay. Blue heron blend in an overcast sky. A rare kotuku contemplates the lightly ruffled water. And there are my land-abiding landlords – kereru, tūī and weka to name a few – all are my beautiful.
Nature has inspired my children’s picture book series – Spiny Sebastian Starfish, Black Shag and The Little Feijoa Tree shortlisted in the Joy Cowley Text Awards 2011. The Butterfly and the Tui will follow in 2018 to complete the series. I can’t wait to showcase the forest ringlet, a rare tussock butterfly only found in New Zealand.
I smile – my first blog complete..
Comments:
Congratulations on your blog, Marion. It is lovely to read about our beautiful Sounds in poetic words I could personally never find. And of course you are allowed to say "my beautiful". You are an author and therefore entitled to invent your own expressions!!
Keep on blogging!
19th Nov, 2017 by Heike Koester
I like all your posts. You have done a really good job.
13th Jan, 2018 by LloydNic
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Marion has been enrolled at the National Office of Rural Women New Zealand as a Branch Member of Honour - a honour conferred on her by the Kenepuru Branch in consideration of long and outstanding service to Rural Women New Zealand. 16/07/2019
Marion’s entry in the TIMELESS WISDOM INTERNATIONAL WRITING CHALLENGE 2018 has been accepted for publication in the Love and Loss section.This competition brings together writers aged 60 and over from around the world, with a focus on non-fiction short stories which share some of the wisdom that can only be acquired through age. It will be published in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand by Emotional Inheritance, an imprint of Exisle Publishing (NZ).
If you missed watching National TV Programme Country Calendar (Nov) that included a sneak peak of Marion’s books as part of Katy and Jason’s (son) sheep milking operation in Taupo, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPBN4S-HfI8
Marion is a member of:
- New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA)
- Storylines
- Rural Women New Zealand
- NZSA Top of the South
- Writers of Marlborough
- Writers in Schools Programme
Great first blog, Marion, love how it is really you speaking your truth here, how you revel in nature and notice the changes each day. I too feel that I live and write from this place, both physically and spiritually. I wish you every success with this blogging process and you have inspired me to think about doing the same.
18th Nov, 2017 by Kristina Jensen