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 won the Rural Women's New Zealand National Short Story Competition - Present category. Her story will appear in the 2025 RWZZ Centennial Book, available in bookshops when published. Wellington City Libraries has chosen Pakupaku Pīwakawaka to have its pages transformed into billboards for a nature trail in one of Wellington's central parks. WCL works with the city's Parks, Sports, and Recreation staff on a project called Te Ara Pukapuka (Book Pathways). The billboards will be placed throughout nature trails and reserve pathways in Wellington for tamariki and their whānau to discover while exploring the region.
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- New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA)
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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