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My writing has been sporadic of late rather than routine. Yet when it has come it hasn’t been stories that have leapt onto my pages but poems. I don’t think of myself as a poet; it isn’t my go-to form. But when I do write it’s because I strongly feel something that I have toContinue reading “Poem without a name”

A part of me died in the fire of your eyes. But something in you still lived.   Those eyes that had seen across oceans and made the most of what you’d been given.   A part of me sighed at the touch of your hand which faded like webs in light.   Those handsContinue reading “Apart”

Happy Valentine’s/Palentine’s, whatever you’re celebrating. Last night I missed out on pancakes (Shrove Tuesday for those outside of the UK) but was able to see my first piece of fiction in print! Late last year I submitted a short piece for an anthology titled Love with a Twist. As you can imagine this is aContinue reading “Love with a Twist”

And, just like that, the curtain is slowly coming down on 2017. Usually time’s indifference is our disquiet but for me at least I feel at ease. There’s a calm that year 30 has brought that I wouldn’t have expected at this point some years ago. In this last quarter of the year, I enteredContinue reading “Mantra”

It’s almost two months since my last post but that’s not to say that nothing has been happening in writersville. Firstly, I sort of had August off: off the manuscript, off the blog, off my regular routine. I say ‘sort of’ because I recruited some beta-readers to look over the first three chapters and giveContinue reading “The Last Quarter”

It’s been a little while since my last post. In that time I took something of a break from working on the Spirits Saga manuscript in order to do some more pleasure reading and pursue other creative things for a while. In this past month I’ve read a couple of books of a similar genreContinue reading “Here We Go Again”

I’m still clinging on to a writers’ group mailing list from my previous employer. A few weeks ago we were assigned a great prompt to write 500 words ‘based on a pop or popular song’. This came a day before I was due to start April camp NaNoWrimo so I was pretty annoyed about the timingContinue reading “Prompt fiction – 500 words based on a pop song”

So here we are in the last day of April and in the end I managed just a third of my ambitious manuscript word count target of 60,000 words. My word count at this point is 20,005 and I will stop here. A breakdown of my month is below. After getting off to a flying startContinue reading “April Camp NaNoWriMo – last hours”