Category: Blog

  • 27th July 2012

    An arty farty tweet up in Matlock Bath Barely a week seems to go by lately without me having some sort of tweet up! I do love my tweet ups! And what better place to have one than the gorgeous Matlock Bath in Derbyshire.  If you haven’t been, you really should.  It is the seaside…

  • 13th July 2012

    A Tweet-up in Winchester This blog very nearly didn’t happen. I’ve only missed one since I started writing it just under a year ago.  This week was nearly the second.  It is late Thursday eve. I edited this morning, did a workshop this afternoon, have walked the hound (and our ‘on loan’ hound) have cleaned…

  • 5 July 2012

    Magical Moments As some of my Twitter followers will know, on Sunday I was struggling with the words.  I was trying to work on my work in progress, an adult novel, which currently stands at 57,000 words.  I’m not obsessed with my word count, but I do find it helps if I set targets for…

  • 29 June 2012

    Down by the river Back in March, I met Twitter and Facebook friend Dean Harkness (@Deanus on twitter) for the first time in Peterborough… we had a fab time!  One of the wonderful things about Twitter – that you can make such fab friends as a result of it!  At that time, we did a…

  • 22nd June 2012

    Cup of tea My Grandma died 7  years ago of cancer.  We were close in that sense of feeling completely comfortable together and being able to share a multitude of things, one of which was a sense of humour, the other being a love of words.  Grandma regularly did the crossword and we always played Scrabble…

  • 15th June 2012

    Head space Mmmm, yes, head space… I’m not sure we writers get a lot of this.  I think that the inside of my head, were the contents to be emptied, would look a bit like a huge pile of lego bricks, but with words on the side, all shapes and colours and in a complete…

  • 8th June 2012

    Weaving Words I’ve often thought about the parallel between sewing and weaving, and writing, but always in relation to writing poetry.  It’s a metaphor that has been used by writers before, as has the technique of quilting, and these metaphors can also apply to life, community and the weaving together of cultures and histories.  The…

  • 25th May 2012

    An Indiscriminate Moonlight Being a bit short of blogability time this week, I thought I’d post one of my poems, and a picture of me in my new funky writing specs… just because they’re new and they’re funky (aubergine with turquoise over the ear bits) and the words would be a lump of grey without them!…

  • 18th May 2012

    When the words come undone Just lately, life has got in the way of my words. She has shouldered in and jabbed me with her bony elbows, so that my usual daily word count has become my weekly word count… if I’m lucky!  I would say that this is one of the few negatives of…

  • 11th May 2012

    Music to write to A few months ago, I wrote a guest post for We Love This Book, as part of their Music to Read by series (which you can read here.)  At the time of writing that post, I kept thinking of music I wrote to, rather than music I read to, because, as…