Where has 2015 gone! One month left and I can probably count on one hand the amount of times I've blogged. A lot has happened since I...

It's been a while since I posted one of these, but here's a writing exercise that our writers' group done the other night. Th...

The aim of this 10 minute exercise was to imagine what we would do if we were walking through a park and we saw someone sitting on a bench,...

Sounds like plagiarism, rewriting scenes in your own style, and maybe it is but it served for a great writing exercise last night at our wr...

This was a writing exercise that we took part in the other week.  The phrase given was 'A Walk in the Park', and this was I produced...

Back from holidays. And did we let the recent storms ruin our time? Never. We soldiered on like the proud holiday-makers we were. Havin...

It's been a while, but today I thought I'd publish a piece of flash fiction that I wrote Monday for one of our Writers' Group Ex...

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...

What a weekend. Lots of things happened - well, I wouldn't say lots, but there was more than usual. 1: I finished the second part to Son...

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...

My 8 year old neice lost a tooth the other week. As usual she placed the tooth under her pillow and went to sleep dreaming of the tooth fair...

I missed my usual blogging slot yesterday. I do apologise. My cat is poorly, bless her, and I had to take her to the vets. She's gone in...

Flicking through my notebook, I found an old piece of writing from an exercise we did at our writers' group. I can't remember when w...

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'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...

Wow! What a week I've had. If you happen to work for an Internet company and they come up with the bright idea of working from home, mak...

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...

Something has been brought to my attention today (which is a good thing because I didn't know what to blog about). This is something tha...

Friday's Pic of the Week inspired me so much I thought I'd write a little piece to go with it. Enjoy! Anchored And so this was how i...

I made a discovery last night. That discovery was the fact that I would never be able to write a piece of serious Sci-Fi. I like Sci-fi, but...