_I was very quiet in my blogging over the past week as I worked hard to complete the last edit of my Australian novel.
The work is complete save for minor changes following the proof readings.

I already have a rough draft for the sequel and part of the first chapter written.

Today I returned to one of two non-fiction books I am writing.

This is a  beginning of it.


Artslim

The Art of Natural Slimming

Diets do not work.

The only way to successfully achieve a healthy weight and maintain it is:

Do NOT go on a diet.

If you want to achieve a naturally healthy weight and maintain it, for 97% of us, thinking in terms of how much weight you have to loose or what weight you wish to attain will not achieve that goal and maintain it.

If you are still thinking in terms of being a certain weight or trying to lose a certain amount of kilo it is highly likely that you have been gaining and losing those same kilos over and over throughout your life and possibly becoming heavier on average with each decade.  If you have been on a yo-yo weight rise and fall all your life why not take a look at a fresh approach and learn the art of natural diet free slimming?

The second non-fiction Book I plan to write concerns travelling Australia and earning your living as you go.
The third book will concern earning your living as a free lance creative person, author and artist.

_I just read the first chapter of the wonderful classic "Anne of Green Gables"
It broke so many editing 'rules.' Used words like 'little' and 'very' and two uses of 'very' in the one sentence.  And guess what - it was the BEST written chapter I have read in a long while.   I am beginning to think I should throw out some of the rule books. 
For example, AutoCrit tells me I use see/saw/hear and feel words too often.  Well - heck - my characters are in touch with feelings, they feel and they are in a wonderful landscape of inland Australia and living by working with the elements of that landscape do they need to 'see.'
If L.M.Montgomery is an example of what not to do, please may I one day write as well as she did. I thought her writing beautiful. 

_Stephen King's formula for learning to write well is: "Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can't expect to become a good writer." He sets out each day with a quota of 2000 words and will not stop writing until it is met. He also has a simple definition for talent in writing: "If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.