Monday Writing Motivation: The dance of words
How do we know whether what we have written is any good? Give a piece of our writing to our families, who indulge us, and are likely to heap undeserved praise on our every effort? To our friends, [...]
Never let go of your writing dreams
It’s been a demanding year. There’s not a person I’ve spoken to who hasn’t faced a cost-of-living crunch, trouble at work or home, or an illness. I want to share why you should never let go of [...]
Monday Writing Motivation: Swimming under the gibbous moon
On Saturday ten days ago, Trish and I set out for Box End Lake. We were taking part in our 24-hour relay swimming marathon. Our team was eight strong. This meant that over the course of 24 hours, [...]
Winners of the June/July Flash Fiction Challenge
You’ll remember that June/July’s Flash Fiction challenge was to write a scene in which a family is preparing for some kind of celebration. Allow family dynamics to be revealed through the scene., [...]
Monday Writing Motivation: A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma
All writers are readers – and everything we read makes a difference, sometimes so subtle as to be undetectable, to our writing. I know that when I want to write something in the style of, say, [...]
Monday Writing Motivation: How to write a novel
Next Saturday and Sunday I, and seven others – members of the Wet and Wild swimming group formed for just this purpose – will be taking part in a fund-raising swim at a lake not far from our [...]
