March 5 question – If for one day you could be anyone or *thing* in the world, what would it be? Describe, tell why, and any themes, goals, or values they/it inspire in you Not an easy question as there are so many things and people that I’d like to be, even if for just […]
Just added a new short story to my list here. ‘Cemetery‘ is a short ghost story, based around a churchyard adjacent to a house I used to live in. it was published in the Lancashire Evening Post last Saturday and now I’ve made it available on this site. There’s more to come.
Very little real writing this last week, I’ve been doing a bit of practice on the clarinet, and also getting distracted by US politics, or at least what passes for politics over there. It’s a scary place. I’m not sure I could write anything quite that dark. I’ve just finished reading Den of Spies by […]
I’ve put the current WIP on a back burner, the story started as a reasonably light mystery/thriller and then it decided to go very dark. To keep it consistent I’ll have to re-write almost the whole opening. While I’m thinking about which way to go with that I’ll play around with some of the older […]
Yesterday was both a good and a bad day. Bad because I didn’t write a single word. did some thinking about the WIP, didn’t quite reach a decision about where it’s going, so not productive in that sense. Plus I had a non-productive think about the question for the next writer’s group. ‘Tell an existing […]
A short story I wrote has now been accepted for inclusion on the Reedsy site, so feel free to go and have a read. Click here to see it and feel free to comment, either there or below, remember that comments really matter. It refers to a tragedy that happened in the Ribble estuary in […]
For the January entry, the question is to describe someone you admired when you were a child and how your opinion changed as you grew. Childhood is such a long time ago for me that I have a hard time remembering much about it😉. Thinking hard I suppose it might be Winston Churchill. As a […]
I’ve just started to use BSky as a way of engaging a bit more with other writers and the publishing industry in general. And it does seem to have had an effect, at least on me. One of the earlier books I published and then withdrew seems to me to be almost ready to hit […]
 Just really joined this blog hop, so please forgive me if/when I mess it up. On the first Wednesday of each month we are supposed to post a question and perhaps a comment about the subject, so I know I’m a bit late for December and a bit early for January, but in the […]
In an effort to get myself moving along I’ve made a decision to try entering a few competitions, and the first one is… ReedsyPrompts, a competition where you have to follow one of several given themes and produce a work that is between 1,000 and 3,000 words long. I sent in the entry this morning […]