Dipping Into The Water Butt

Right. For some obscure reason, Debi Alper has nominated me for “A Roar For Powerful Words” Award which I think has something to do with people who are good at writing stories. I’m not quite sure why I was nominated because I’ve yet to actually finish a book but I guess Debi thinks that what’s […]

I’ve decided that no matter how badly I need the money, I’m not going to accept jobs that mean working for a pittance.
Since Richard left, money has been very tight and, because it’s the beginning of the year, work has been slow in coming in. When the bills still need paying, it’s easy to start […]

Have you heard about the six word story competition?
DBA Lehane has arranged it and you’ll find the information here. The idea is to write a story using just six words. Yes, that right - a whole story using no more than six words.
The prize is an original poster size print of an original piece of […]

This is the latest MeMe doing the rounds and as it was started by Leo, I couldn’t possibly ignore the tag. So here goes – why I write.
My grandad was a docker but he was also a very intelligent man. He’d never really been given the opportunity to make anything much of himself but more […]

Would you believe that I’d been writing it directly to my backup instead of to my hard disk, a mistake that resulted in my manuscript becoming a series of dots, squares and other rubbish that most definitely wasn’t what I’d written?
I’m one of those people who can’t re-write a story. If it’s gone, it’s gone. […]

I’ve been working on my “Baby Confusion” story and got to thinking about the first romantic stories I read. They were way back when I was just a little girl and I’ll bet a lot of you read them, too.

The Princess and The Frog
Rapunzel
Beauty and The Beast

They’re all “happy ever after stories”.
And then are the […]

Ok, I admit it! I’ve been missing writing romance!
It usually surprises people when I say I enjoy reading and writing romance because I don’t come across as a typically romantic kind of person.
But just what is a romantic person? Personally, I think we all are because if we’re honest, only the very fewest of us […]

Julie Cohen, author of Mod-X stories for HMB and chicklit stories for Headline’s “Little Black Dress” line has started an “opening paragraphs challenge”.
Basically, writers post their opening paragraph and explain how it introduces the characters etc. Julie explains it all on her blog so I’d suggest you nip over there rather than listen to me […]

Have you been on The Inner Minx? What do you mean, what is it? It’s a blog, you clod! A blog! Just like this one, only different. And yes, I know that’s sort of oxymoron-ish but let’s not get technical, eh?
The Inner Minx is also a person. She’s also a very good writer. How do […]

Caroline left a comment on my last post suggesting that, if every blogger gave some information about themselves that would be useful for writers to have on their “people collection list”, we’d have a wealth of research material to dip into whenever the need arises.
What a brilliant idea!
She suggested I start the tag so what […]