Guest Post by Katie Oliver. I would like to welcome the lovely Katie Oliver to my blog. Katie has written an interesting guest post about where she gets ideas for her books from. And what do you do if an equally handsome lawyer named Darcy warns you to stay away from the sexy film star or risk a broken heart? Do you listen to his advice? For me, writing .

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Writes about cities and takes pictures.

Connecting to nature and the landscape.

Poetry, short stories and blogs by Salena Godden and The Book Club Boutique archives. Monday, 10 August 2015. Funny thing being a writer. A lot of the time you wonder where the writing went. Oftentimes you miss the writing. And missing writing feels like nothing else. Sometimes its like an absence of a horse between your thighs. Or a wave crashing over your head.