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...

It's fortunate you can't see the traces of purple on my fingers, but if you could then you might realise I've been picking Black...

It was a busy weekend, as I was trying to get everything still to do for Serena's website and remaining social media links completed. ...

I doubt there can ever be a truly definitive answer to what it the actual length of a novella or a novel because there are so many variables...

Very pleased that the temperature has gone done to nearer normal for this time of year. Last week it was a struggle to do anything, even wri...

If you read my post about Awards Night early last month, you may recall that it was the announcement that I'd won the Nottingham Writers...

I've just been posting an album, to my personal Facebook page, of some of the photos that I took in Bath last month- a few I'd previ...

My brain is getting overloaded. The end of March beginning of April is always busy- not enough hours to do everything- and it's badly ...

I just have to finish minor editing ready to submit 2 short stories, then I can begin reading the 1st draft (D1) It's been a month sin...

Yes, the 1st draft of the novella is now complete. While I've completed short stories and flash fiction, I've never actually compl...

I know I could leave this until later, but I write sequentially, whether it's a first or last draft... So I'm now at that stage wh...

Yes, I know I've been missing for weeks- sorry. I didn't realise how tired out I was until my brain went on strike and I began sle...

Last November when the e-book version of the One Word Anthology was released I officially crept into existence. Serena Lake has been evolv...

After three days of lovely sunshine and warmth it's back to cool and wet weather- it's also half term so everyone is around and ther...

I've been making steady progress on my novella but have now come to a temporary halt. Why? Because my floppy disk reader has gone as...

Yes, it's Sunday night and I've not blogged for a few days. Life is getting so busy that I've decided to reduce my regular thr...

Word count targets... Well my mini target of a minimum 500 words a week on my work in progress - which I started in January - has been w...

I'm at the stage in the novella where I need to use a flashback. I've always been ambivalent about flashbacks. Done well they can ...

This week is half term in the UK, so that means my writing time will be severely eaten into, but I hope to keep to my minimum writing target...

It's Monday so it must be catch-up day. I really don't know where the weekend went to, but I didn't get my regular blog post d...