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Jo Danilo | Writer

Jo Danilo | Writer

Author of Creative Fiction Writing, Books and Stories

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Tag: Books

Food, water AND stories

A big thank you to all the writers and storytellers who allow us to live different lives in different places, and introduce us to characters who often feel like friends. If only for a short time, we can escape from this world and live in another…

Books, fiction, food, human need, isolation, item, new Zealand, quarantine, stories, storytellers, water, writers

Each Book is a Gift a Writer Made for Strangers

Some books are parties to which you are invited, full of friends who are there even when you have no friends.

Books, creative writing, fiction, love letter, Rebecca Solnit, velocity of being, writers

Flambards by K.M Peyton

Flambards taught me, like no other books I read in my childhood, that people and relationships are complicated things…

author, Books, childrens, favourite, first world war, flambards, history, horses, K M Peyton, Meg Rosoff, series

Mine, All Mine (…for the day)

In which Jo gets to look after a bookshop for a whole blinking day!

Books, bookshop, everywhere, heaven, job, kerikeri, reading, secondhand, shop

The Stuff of Nightmares!

What’s the first nightmare you ever remember having? The first time you woke in a cold sweat, pulling your covers up to your nose and staring around your dark bedroom, completely terrified? This was mine…

Books, childrens, first, little miss, mr men, mr tickle, night, nightmare, terror, tickling

Odd Writers #4 : Robert Shields & His Enormous Diary

Diaries are supposed to be full of secrets and intrigue. Rev. Robert Shields’ diary was absolutely not one of those diaries.

Books, diary, fiction, longest, odd, robert shields, writer, Writing

The Curtain Twitcher’s Handbook: Tip #1

A short guide to the art of curtain-twitching.

Books, coronavirus, covid, curtain, curtain twitchers, fiction, ghost, handbook, spooky, story, teen, twitching, Writing, young adult

INSPIRATION: Lottie’s Minefield

Eadweard Muybridge (he changed his name several times to come up with that) not only killed his wife’s lover, but … More

art, Books, Eadweard Muybridge, film, Horse in Motion, inspiration, stories, Writing

Jo’s Books

Foxfires

11:42 pm

The Curtain Twitcher’s Handbook

Blackwood

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