Hello friends! Hope you are all safe and well and writing/reading is going well. What better way to do a long overdue update than with some good news? 😊 Last month, I spotted an opportunity on Twitter to enter the Lindsay Literary Agency Scholarship for a fully funded place at the Virtual Writers Weekend held between the 9th and 12th of July 2020. […]
Tag: Writing
A Photo Prompt Micro and New Writing Friends
I’ve recently stumbled upon across some really nice writer folks on Twitter via the Virtual Writing Group, (@virtwriting). Not only are they a welcoming, supportive bunch of people but they are also masters of tomgiffery a term I especially coined for the exemplary GIF show their members put on last week for their 1st birthday celebrations […]
A micro I wrote from a one word prompt
O.K, I’ve waxed lyrical here and on Twitter about how much I love using @AdHocFiction ’s one word prompts to write micros. The unsuccessful one below was huge fun to write because I wrote it in 10 minutes in a DNA slot fuelled by a quick, much needed coffee. I didn’t think I would write anything in that […]
Mood Boards and Fictional Minds
I have been so neck deep in reworking my book that I haven’t got round to updating this blog but just thought I’d pop in to mention a couple of things that have really helped me recently. I’ve joined Pinterest where I am doing valuable research for the book and also creating a bit of a […]
Saying Hello to Book 2
Hello! Last month, I had my first flash published online in the flash flood for National Flash Fiction day. Here it is: Colours This was the one shortlisted by @TSS publishing in the Spring and I was so chuffed to see it amongst some great stories by amazing authors. I have another one due […]
How a writing course helped my novel
Back in 2016, when an editorial report of my book picked up promise but suggested a hefty redraft, I had three options: Jack it in and take up another hobby. (Baking for instance, but after a few flour bomb incidents, I had to abandon my plans to usurp Nadiya) Rewrite the book using pointers from the report […]
Flash!
Hello Writing the nth draft of my 1st book (Aghni; Reign of Fire) on the Faber academy online ‘Work in Progress’ course took up my entire 2017. I decided to take a break from the book to regain a bit of perspective. My tutor, Rupert Wallis had mentioned all sorts of writing resources in the […]
The Journey Begins
This pretty much sums up my feeling about books except I drink coffee, not tea. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis