Two weeks to go and lots still to do. I've had a couple of days break, rewarding myself for all the words I've achieved by attendi...

After taking a break over Easter to start sowing vegetable and herb seeds in pots and tubs, I'm getting back to the novel. Moving to S...

Welcome to part two of my 2018 review. In part one it was January to June, and now the busy exciting aspects start with July... July to ...

Only fifteen days until Christmas and I've still got cards and letters to write and presents to buy. Last week I was partying; minimal...

It's been a very exciting Monday and a much better way to start a week than usual. My article 'Womag Rights' has been publishe...

My aim is to get back to work at some point this week. It's been three weeks of mess, shifting things around and no quiet. During th...

Now I need to say at the start this treasure is not the archetypal pirate treasure- coins, jewellery and other goodies along with the odd sk...

Half way through the year already! What have I achieved so far? To date I have already exceeded my 2013 word count total; that was 23,03...

Getting back to the normal everyday routine is not going well. So this coming week I really must be tough with myself. Over the years I...

Well it's the day after the night before and I can now reveal what I've been keeping quiet about since late October... I won one ...

Finally I've had some free time to get back to my Nottinghamshire short novel- lots of appointments at this time of year. :( As I was ...

An orderly routine at home has been restored with the academic year beginning, so that means undisturbed writing time. Well that's the...

I've always preferred third person viewpoint, both writing and reading. Occasionally I have written a short story from the first perso...

Thank you all for all your support and kind words recently, it encouraged and reminded me that sometimes I need to step back and relax and n...

For many years I've been a m ember of the Talkback forum over on the writers-online website, and the monthly one word writing challenge ...

Finally I can return to the second draft rewrite. I'm grateful to Patsy Collins for guest posting last week while I was very busy wit...

The computer is still struggling on and my search for a replacement has begun. Fortunately it's kept running meanwhile, so I can tell ...

It's been a busy few months and apart from getting the short story finished and sent off, I've not had time to make any progress on ...

My rewriting of the short story is going well. I've finished the first rewrite now and just need to go back through it, as I'm a c...

As I've been attempting to revise a short story that has been sitting on my computer for a while - it won one of the writers club short ...