Tag: the writing journey
“I really value words and the power of them to communicate effectively…”
“I really value words and the power of them to communicate effectively; so in my various stories try to illustrate and then let readers draw their own conclusions about a certain scenario, as…
Source: “I really value words and the power of them to communicate effectively…”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” ― Ernest Hemingway, the Master Writer from The Wild Years from
Source: “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“Informing, encouraging, igniting, uplifting (and perhaps even) inspiring”
The Journey, The Long and Winding Road
TO THE END OF THE RAINBOW
Source: TO THE END OF THE RAINBOW
“No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you’re lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.”
– Harriet Du Autermond
from https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/craigs-rainbow-books-2/
“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”
The Choice by Og Mandino
picture from
http://ww.thechoiceanewbook.wordpress.com/
Source: The Choice by Og Mandino
“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”
PPS
Don’t worry about the world ending today…
as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand
as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand
“A writer’s dreams“
from
Never Ever Give Up!
Source: Never Ever Give Up!
The Writing Life
Thoughts along the Writing Journey:
“It took me 15 years to find out that I had no talent for writing, but by then I couldn’t give it up, because by then I was too famous to give up.”
– Robert Benchley
from
and
Just published at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B012TW7NEM
and the paperback is at http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Life-Thoughts-along-Journey/dp/1515269027
A book, a “shortie” being written “on the go”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
– Ernest Hemingway
from http://www.hemingwaythoughts.wordpress.com
as “this quickly forgetting total non-techno-geek” has to keep practising on the publishing process
…to make “purrfect” (within his limited limits)
“I’d like to tell you how wonderful I am. I’m an excellent writer. I’ve won too many awards to list. I’ve sold a bunch of books. I can do 10 push-ups without a break, and while I can’t run a four-minute mile, I can drive it in about a minute and a half…”
“Life is far too important (a subject) to be taken too seriously”
“Do not go where the path
may lead, go instead where there
is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
– Colette
Story of my ‘little life’!
from http://www.craiglockbooks.com
The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4
http://goo.gl/vTpjk (and/or http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock)
https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=%22craig+lock%22&sitesearch_type=STORE (paperbacks)
and http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books
All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children –
MINE!
“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”
Don’t worry about the world ending today…
as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand
“A writer’s dreams”
Craig’s Books on Writing: The Writing Journey
(Amazon e-books and paperbacks)
“You know when a writers in real trouble… when they start writing about writing.”
And once they start running creative writing courses, you know then they’re really deep in the smelly brown stuff.”
“We share what we know, so that we all may grow.”
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The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4
http://goo.gl/vTpjk (and/or http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock)
https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=%22craig+lock%22&sitesearch_type=STORE (paperbacks)
and http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books
All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children –
MINE!
“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials.”
Craig’s first books. Early (“baby”) steps on the writing journey
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from https://craigsbooklist.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/craigs-list-of-books/
and
http://www.craigswritingjourney.wordpress.com
Pictures (above) Craig’s first five books. Early (“baby”) steps on the writing journey (from 1993)
CRAIG’s BOOKS (Where it all began!)
If you want to follow the “long writing journey”, click on https://craigswritingjourney.wordpress.com/
- the New Rainbow
BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS BY CRAIG LOCK
Dream on.”sonny boy”!
from http://kiwiswhodaredtodream.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/craigs-books/
Tags: Authors, Craig Lock, Books: Hard copies and e-books:fiction and non-fiction
* Hard copies and e-books: Fiction and non-fiction books, self help, novels on South Africa, “faction”, travel, humour, inspiration, words of encouragement and empowerment, motor racing, Formula 1, Grand Prix drivers
I’ve been writing about my passions since 1993.
1. HANDBOOK FOR SURVIVAL IN THE NINETIES
(now retitled and updated: ‘How to Survive The New Millennium’)
This is Craig’s first book: A collection of writings on various subjects to help every man or woman survive in a rapidly changing, uncertain world… after the “easy living and prosperity” of the seventies and eighties. An introductory look at the concepts of success, motivation, attitude, goal setting and stress
2. THE END OF THE LINE
This is Craig Lock’s first novel. A short novel set in “the beloved country”. A passionate and heart-breaking tale of South Africa, a true story of the bad old days, but with the hope of the new. THE END OF THE LINE “The End Of The Line” could be described as a “faction”, a fiction with a serious factual grounding. It is simple, and therefore moving. It gives yet another highly individual portrait of that troubled land, and it does so through a believable and sustained narrative form.”
3. HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE
Craig Lock is an extensive world traveller and failed professional emigrater who has spent most of his life’s savings on airfares. He is still ‘sliding down the razor blade of life’, stuck on a deserted (other than a few brilliant rugby players) island at the bottom of the world near Antarctica, where he is ‘trying to throw a double six’ to get off and go out into the real world – but he doesn’t know where!
In the style of Bill Bryson, HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE tells tales of his hilarious hair-raising adventures in his younger years through ‘Grate’ Britain and the Continent
4. THE MAD MONEY BOOK
An introductory guide to make the most of your hard-earned money. This work covers the basics of good money management to helping guide the more serious (and sophistocated) investor.
5.. HOW TO MAKE A MILLION
(even if its only Italian lire!)
We’ll see whether the principles DO work, or whether he’s merely dreaming!
6. DROPPED OUT IN GODZONE
Craig Lock’s humorous travel book about his adventures in provincial New Zealand…
One man and his family – and their experiences “Down Under”.
A new immigrant’s impressions of life in provincial New Zealand (after coming from a large city in South Africa) … and there were one or two rather funny adventures, nay escapades in “Sleepy Hollow” from time to time.
The author and his wife contrast life in colourful, vibrant South Africa with calm and kindly New Zealand – and with large dashes of humour offer much understanding of, and sympathy with the social attitudes of the two worlds.
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REVIEW:
“DROPPED OUT IN GODZONE is an original and agreeable piece of work. The picture it gives of New Zealand- to one who has never been there- has a ring of complete authenticity. The feeling of the country is relaxed, and perhaps rather unstimulating, but we get an overall impression from the writer that he views his time there with some affection, and above all with tolerance.”
This book breathes a natural humour and kindliness, which is what gives it the individual character that is so appealing.
Autobiography has a particular value as a literary form. It is a shared kind of writing and I’ll continue to bang the drum. It is unusual to encounter two such different manuscripts from the same author. Both (THE END OF THE LINE is the other book) have quality and share an easy and assured writing style that is a pleasure to read. These short books are of first rate quality.”
7. THE NEW RAINBOW
A tale of the many colourful and diverse people in the rainbow nation of New South Africans
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All these books are available at
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock
(and/or
https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=%22craig+lock%22&sitesearch_type=STORE (paperbacks)
and http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books
All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children –
MINE!
BooKs by cRaig loCk 
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