Only a month to Christmas Day and I've just started thinking about all that I need to do. Usually that's because November is busy...

I'm pleased to say my characters have returned and I'm ready to resume rewriting the current work in progress. In previous years I...

Goodness, where have the days gone. (image courtesy of Dennis Apple) I'm still not sorted as there's presents still to wrap, a...

Saving the story... I've now got my portable hard drive, so I'll be saving my work in progress as I go along, not just on a memo...

For those of you who had a Bank Holiday on Monday, I hope you enjoyed it. I did a little gardening, but spent most of the day sorting thro...

After a couple of days relaxing- well sort of- I'm planning the week ahead so that I can get back to writing those last couple of chapte...

Lots of berries on the Hawthorn... The past week has seen a lot of plans for the last quarter of the year change - but as the saying goe...

I've been lucky to have some undisturbed time today, so I've made good use of it by getting my chapter outlines written up and print...

I've been thinking- seriously... The past few weeks have been a struggle with my writing. It's not that I've lost my enthu...

Trying to be more productive is the operative phrase for me at the moment. I've found a writing system that seems to fit me, and now I...

As I have a number of stories in various stages of development and/or writing, I also have a lot of images in folders, and my mind. A cou...

Well my characters and plots are in my mind. In fact there will always be one or two of them wanting attention to reveal a snippet of vital ...

Hope you had a good Christmas. I'm slowly returning to some sort of normality, despite a cold that two members of the family had over ...

Do you take time to seriously look at how you've done each year? And I don't just mean waiting until January the 1st and making reso...

At the moment my brain is in novel, rather than short story mode. Though I find that when I'm working on longer pieces my new ideas seem...

This is actually the first Christmas/New Year holiday when I've had any quiet time to write. As my Dorset novel is going to be getting...