WORDWATCHERS
Ginette
Higgs
Age:
Young enough
Day
Job: Accountant for an IT
Organisation
Spare
Time: Mum, wife, Wordwatcher,
writer
Loves:
My family, friends, laughing, losing myself in a good book, camping
holidays, Christmas, making people happy
Hates:
Arguments, newspapers, foul weather camping, commercialism, meanness,
labels, injustice.
Vices:
Chocolate, X-Factor, my sofa (and I can do all three at once!)
All-time
Favourite Authors: Guy Gavriel
Kay (faves – A Song for Arbonne, Tigana, the Sarantine Mosaic); Charles de
Lint (Moonheart, Trader, endless great books); Alexander McCall Smith (esp
Scotland St and Isabel Dalhousie series) Jane Austin, biographies
Current
Reads: Kate Atkinson, Celia
Ahern, Sheila Hancock
I
wish I could: Write more; sing; keep house as my Mum would approve; lose
weight; stay at home
Why
do I write: Freedom;
creativity; me time; control; achievement; approval; love.
What
do I write: People, age,
relationships, change, searching.
Have
I been successful?: 4 Wordwatchers Short Story 1st places (Summer
Memories, The Bakers Daughter, Confession, Fresh Start).
What
am I working on:
-
Breeze: A woman’s
quest to find her father and reality-v-dream.
-
Untitled: A book for my
son about adventure, danger and bravery.
-
Experiments: Trying to
find voice
What is my Goal?: To complete a book, find a publisher, get published, work as a writer for the rest of my life, be as prolific as de Lint and McCall-Smith.
