Patricia Leslie

Welcome to my strand of the World Wide Web. Writing Tool Box: tip #5 Netvibes Dashboard Intelligence Subscribe to receive articles and tips every week in your inbox This week's article: Researching steam train travel (it was a lot of fun!) Over the past couple of weeks, I've been writing train travel scenes. Easy. Right? Put the scenes into the correct context - travelling from Sydney to Melbourne in 1882, and it's not quite as easy as I imagined. I prefer my characters to mo

Some people only ever read one genre, others might have two or three, yet others will read absolutely anything they can get hold of (like me). So, I asked my captured... I mean, friendly group of readers whether or not they read across genres or were loyal to the core readers of one genre and one genre only? Catherine Donald is a lover of challenges! She says, I love reading across genres. The last couple of years I’ve undertaken reading challenges to widen what I read and ex

There are various ways to undertake a heritage walk of your home city. One of mine has been to print out copies of old maps (Doves Maps of Sydney 1880), and then see if I can find the locations that were a hive of activity 130 plus years ago. This is the first in a series of “quick dips” into Sydney built heritage. I’m starting with Town Hall Station. One, it's on my train line so easy for me to reach and two, it's central to the major heritage buildings in the city. Followin