Patricia Leslie

Welcome to my strand of the World Wide Web. Writing Toolbox: tip #11 Online Graphic Creation apps Subscribe to receive articles and tips every week in your inbox This week's article: Daydreams and Ruminations: creating fictional mythologies It won’t come as much surprise to the people that know me, but I spend a lot of time daydreaming. I ruminate on stories. Parts of some will pop up in a novel here, a short story there. Most will not escape the confines of my imagination. T

Welcome to my strand of the World Wide Web. Writing Toolbox: tip #10 Book Review sites for readers Subscribe to receive articles and tips every week in your inbox This week's article: Poetry & Story Settings Excepting the diner On the outskirts The town of Ladora At 3 a.m. Was dark but For my headlights And up in One second-story room A single light Where someone Was sick or Perhaps reading As I drove past At seventy Not thinking This poem Is for whoever Had the light on This

Welcome to my strand of the World Wide Web. Writing Toolbox: tip #9 Blogs for Writers Subscribe to receive articles and tips every week in your inbox This week's article: Book Review - The Unlikely Occultist by Isobel Blackthorn Isobel Blackthorn’s fictionalised biography of Alice Anne Bailey brings to light a life, and life’s purpose, that has been denigrated, downplayed or completely ignored. She became a shadow in the background of the momentous events and changes that imp