Tag: novel
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New Year’s Greetings!
2nd January 2024 Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all had a lovely and relaxing Christmas. As someone who likes to be in tune with the seasons, the Christmas period, for me, is about hunkering down, catching up on sleep, watching old films, doing jigsaws, spending time with friends and family… and yes, eating…
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Family Stories
13th September 2023 I am in the final edits of my current adult novel, The Photograph Album, although I’m pretty sure I said this a few weeks ago too! The fact that I am still editing is thanks to my wonderful beta readers who have given me such incredible and helpful suggestions and feedback. As…
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
11th August 2023 It’s been five years since I’ve blogged and a lot has happened in that time. I like changes though. Obviously, not all change feels good, but it can mean movement, growth, re-assessing and sometimes taking time out, which is kind of what I did. Creatively though, I’ve still been active. I learnt…
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3rd August 2012
Stop and Think time Yes, I am at that point, the two thirds of the way through the novel point… or rather, me and my co-writer are. We started our adult contemporary novel at the end of February this year, so have had five months working away at it. I had this vague idea in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
