Firstly, I'd like to congratulate one of my writer friends on finishing the first draft of their second novel.  It's such a great f...

I've been duped! Duped big time stylie!!! After finishing Son of Jack I wrote a series of short ghost stories and then decided that I co...

Peggy Eddleman over at Will Write For Cookies (love that title) wrote an interesting post the other day about names and choosing the right ...

A friend of mine brought up a subject last night regarding opening sentences. He wanted, in our opinion, an example of a bad opening senten...

One of my biggest problems when writing back in the days of yore (god, I'm feeling old just by saying that) was my sentence structure. A...

A friend of mine posted a link to an article on Facebook yesterday which did make me laugh. It was all about names and how some unfortunate ...

This piece was written a while back as an exercise for our writers' group. I can't quite remember what the in's and out's o...

People say that writing is a lonely game. I read many blogs about such things not so long ago. The fact is, it can be, but then it isn't...

I haven't given one of these for sometime but, to be honest, there's not a lot to report. My new novel, 'Lady of the Seas', ...

I've always known, but it was confirmed last night that the school I went to all those moons ago wasn't all that. When it comes to w...

I discovered this morning that I' ve been awarded the Stylish Blogger Award by Amanda Borenstadt at A Fortnight of Mustard. What can I s...

My thoughts on this topic: I read a blog not so long ago about whether or not your protagonist should appear pleasing to the eye - ie, shoul...

Well, after my discovery on Friday of Jason Chan and his fantastic piece, I decided to go home and attempt my own piece. As dipicted in my n...

Look at what I found!!! During my search through artists, I found this piece, and to my surprise it matches one of my legendary characters i...

On Monday night we pulled out the ye-oh faithful word box. Inside is a collection of random sentences used to inspire. This is the consequen...

This week, continuing on with last week's theme of 'dreamscapes', comes a newly discovered artist to my gallery. Christophe Vach...

One word and one word alone inspired today's post. That word? Awesome ! Why? Okay, allow me to explain. Who out there has heard and ever...

I originally saw this picture on a blog that I follow, and I instantly fell in love with it. It's available to download as a wallpaper b...

Hi everyone. As promised, here is the first draft of the opening chapter for my new novel. Feel free to leave feedback if you want (every li...

Last night I took the plunge. I sat down to a blank Word screen and I wrote just over 1,300 words to my brand new novel. The opening chapter...