Today’s guest post is from Natalie Rose of ‘Dare to Dream Photography’, she has been a baby photographer for five years and a mum for seven. You can read more photography tips and tricks or book in your own session with her HERE.
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Over the past (almost) eleven years I have been at home, as in not in paid employment.
I’ve cared for children (mine and others), I’ve volunteered at places that I’ve valued, and I spent time with family and friends. I’ve also invested time writing and publishing books that I am really proud of. Not everyone is lucky enough to have married someone who chooses to love them every day, but I have been. It’s been fourteen years now and my husband still chooses to love me every single day, and I choose to do the same.
Happy tell a fairytale day! Until recently I didn’t even know this was a thing, and a part of me feels a little disappointed that I haven’t had years of randomly having fairytales shared with me. Though, to be fair, I do go searching for fairytales all on my own and have discovered some incredible fairytale reimaginings in my reading journeys.
So today, in honor of ‘tell a fairytale day’ I believe all I can do is start this blog with ‘Once upon a time’. As an author I’m really drawn to the idea of ‘Thin places’. Locations in this world where the veil between here and the Spiritual world are thinner and more traversable, so the two worlds interact with each other a little more easily, where you can be present in the physical and the spiritual at the same time.
Waitangi Day is a public holiday in New Zealand and marks the anniversary of the initial signing of the ‘Treaty of Waitangi’ on 6 February 1840, a document that was meant to provide equality, but has fallen short in many ways.
In case you don’t know, editing is the process that takes your finished manuscript and polishes it. Chances are if you’re a writer then you probably know this, what you may not know is that there are different types of editing, and not all types of editing are created equally.
One of the things you don’t generally imagine, or at least I didn’t imagine, when you sit down to write your first novel is that you’ll not only need a cover, but that you’ll have enlist someone to create one, or do it yourself.
Okay, so it’s not quite two years, and as an author I’m not even as successful as the breath you take before saying J.K Rowling, but despite not becoming an overnight publishing success I’ve learnt a lot.
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Karla RoseI'm a Christian, a wife, and a mother of two living in the wonderful Waikato Archives
April 2021
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