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T.M. Clark

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August 01, 1969

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T.M. Clark

Zimbabwean-born T.M. Clark combines her passion for storytelling, different cultures and wildlife with her love for the wild in her multicultural books. Writing for adults and children, she has been nominated for a Queensland Literary Award and is a Children’s Book Council Notable. When not killing her fans and hiding their bodies (all in the name of literature), Tina Marie coordinates the CYA Conference (www.cyaconference.com), providing professional development for new and established writers and illustrators, and is the co-presenter at Writers as Sea (www.WritersAtSea.com.au). She loves mentoring emerging writers, eating chocolate biscuits and collecting books for creating libraries in Papua New Guinea.

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T.M. Clark Not having to get dressed for work and put on makeup :) Oh and using peoples names, then killing them in fiction because you can't go around doing tha…moreNot having to get dressed for work and put on makeup :) Oh and using peoples names, then killing them in fiction because you can't go around doing that in real life! LOL(less)
T.M. Clark Cross fingers and toes and everything else... have not had to deal with this yet. Because I had written multiple books before I got published, that dr…moreCross fingers and toes and everything else... have not had to deal with this yet. Because I had written multiple books before I got published, that dreaded 'second book block' was avoided. And at the moment I have the opposite problem - so many stories building and cooking in my head, I can't write them down fast enough...and I don't want to forget them, so I jot down ideas, snippets to come back to another time...

So 3 years later..I am coming back to this question... I have now had to deal not so much with a writer's block, but with a challenge of self-worth as a writer. Having gone through a health issue, I developed a disbelief in myself as a writer. So the stories were still there - I just suddenly thought they were no good. Admitting this problem went 3/4 to the way of solving it, and then additional plotting and continued writing sorted out the rest. The support of many other writers along the way, saying that they too suffered this was nice knowing about, and I learnt that each person has to face themselves in the mirror and deal with these inner demons in their own way. Lucky its a phase and it passed.(less)
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T.M. Clark Hey Karen

Thanks for the recommend.

At present I am just putting the books I have in, slowly, getting my library onto here and I won't be reviewing at all. Just having a place I can see whats on my list and whats not on there that I need to buy etc.

Still finding my way around even though I have been a member for a while, I have only just had a proper look at Good reads and what it does etc and decided to try and utilise it.

You take care.

Bye 4 now
Tina


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