It surprised me to receive an email on Friday telling me the reader's report from the New Writers' Scheme was ready to access. I had...

One week to go to my final deadline. Today (Sunday) I've done about seven hours at the keyboard- obviously I did get up to make coffee...

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...

Thursday my second draft went over the 40,000 word mark. (Admittedly at the start of the year I already had a handful of the early chapter...

Another New Year approaches and I'm probably not alone in thinking 2018 has gone quickly. I've had a rest over the Christmas hol...

Today has been moving furniture out of my office area and putting temporary storage in place. It's certainly given me a bit more space, ...

Apologies for the lack of communication this last few weeks; it's been a month of varying appointments, arranging a speaker for October ...

You may have noticed I've been absent for a while. Well we're having a massive sort out at home. Lots of things are going into box...

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...

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...

Yes, I'm guilty of procrastination. I don't intend to, but somehow time passes and then it's too late to get started because eve...

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...

Every writer knows the value of carrying a notebook or some device to record those moments we all get when an idea pops into our heads; we s...

Though it may not seem like it, I have been making progress on the writing front, amongst all the deadlines- not all of them writing related...

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...

I realised today that writing can be a bit like snakes and ladders. You work your way along the board and sometimes everything goes well, or...

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...

This is actually blog post 501, and I don't know what to say... At the moment my brain is swirling ideas around, beyond my current wor...