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Priceless Gift
This is the piece I wrote in response to the photo prompt of the locket on Saturday Hope you like it, and any suggestions, or comments are as always, gratefully received. Sophia sat with her back...
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Six Sentence Sunday 7th October
Today’s six sentences come from a piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago. Paula stood in the empty dining room and smiled. Finally, the house was hers. It had taken months of negotiations, solicitors, and...
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Waving, Not Drowning
Inspired by Saturdays photo prompt….. Marisha stood on the damp sand and stared out to sea. Normally, on a clear day, you could see Essex. But not today, as a dense bank of fog swept its way, creeping...
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Oooooo, Look!
Paula Acton and Dianne Gray have both tagged me in the Look! Challenge Thank you so much ladies! “The idea is to locate the word ‘look’ in whatever manuscript you have lying around and post the few...
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Six Sentence Sunday 14th October
I wrote this piece back in April “I’m sorry Jan, but it needs to be said.” “No, please Dave, that’s enough, you’ve made your point.” Jan looked across the table at her father in law. When she’d first...
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Six Sentence Sunday 21st October
This weeks 6 sentences are from a piece I wrote as an exercise in the Faber class We were asked to write 100 words on our name. I went blank, but after a bit of brainstorming came up with the idea of...
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Six Sentence Sunday 18th November
Thank you for all your comments yesterday. It’s really interesting to hear how you all work Today’s 6 sentences come from an exercise I did in my Faber class the week before last. The idea was to...
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Boxing Day
Boxing Day was traditionally the day that people gave their servants a Christmas Box, a small gift to recognise their loyalty and service. As a child, I thought it literally meant that they had boxing...
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No Faber, But Cake & A Sneak Preview Of The WIP
Well, I didn’t make it up to my Faber class last night A combination between snow, freezing temperatures and my tutor being called away to Wales on a family emergency. We were offered the opp to sit in...
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Desperate Dan
Photo from Wikipedia So here’s the final character from Still, Daniel…and no, he looks nothing like Desperate above Daniel was born in November 1953 to middle class parents who lived in a...
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E is for Eco
Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in Alessandria in Northern Italy. He is the first of the writers I’ve looked into who is actually still alive! Lol. Urged by his father to become a Lawyer, Umberto instead...
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Monday Must Do’s 20th to 26th May
Good morning! (or afternoon/evening depending on where you are and when you’re reading this I’m BACK! Did ya miss me? I’ve missed you guys Ok, that’s enough lol….I guess I better tell you what I’ve...
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Turn Your Experiences Into A Novel
I came across a brilliant idea in The Daily Writer a few days ago. There’s the old saying isn’t there, write what you know. Yeah, ok, that’s boring and I don’t know much anyway. Well, actually…I’ve...
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Inspiring Objects
I’m a huge fan of writing prompts (as you probably know) and one of my favourites is using photos (which ive been using a lot recently). But, Ive stumbled across 2 websites that made me think,...
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Insecure Writers Support Group – June 2013
Apologies in advance that this post is quite long and isn’t really my normal whiney type of post for IWSG. I remember the day that I wanted to write. My friend Jayne had been writing for a while, but...
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ReadWave And The Debate On Freebies
A couple of months ago I went to the “launch” of a new web site… ReadWave which has been set up in association with Circalit It’s a place to upload your short stories, extracts from novels etc, and is...
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The Power Of Knowledge
When I finished my Faber course back in April one of the last things our tutor said was, don’t enrol on anymore writing classes, just get on with it now, and WRITE! Initially I thought, yeah, great...
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My Faber Reading
A HUGE thank you to everyone who commented on my IWSG post a couple of days ago. I will continue to write, but I’m not going to make it the entire focus of my life anymore. I need to step back, chill...
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Tangled – The Synopsis
Well, its gone off in the post to The Romantic Novelists Association *bites finger nails* So i thought I’d share the synopsis. It’s not exactly a synopsis, more like a blurb lol Tangled is a novel...
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Writing Blogger Challenge – Day 1
I must admit, I’ve been thinking my blog is/was a little stale recently. So this morning when I was reading blogs and having a major catch up I noticed that one of my favourite bloggers, Hunter Emkay...
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