Tag: writing

  • 13th January

    Let me tell you about gates… Last year, I was lucky enough to attend a poetry writing workshop hosted by Derbyshire County Council.  They do quite a lot of these types of workshops – always enjoyable and a great opportunity to meet fellow writers and have a good chin-wag about writerly kind of things.  This particular one…

  • 6th January 2011

    The Plot Planner I’ve mentioned my plot planner in one or two posts now and it’s generated a bit of interest, curiosity and intrigue among other writers, and, apparently, some squinting as certain tweeps (you know who you are) have attempted to work out, from my last post, what the heck I was up to! …

  • 30th December

    The Book of 2012! I can’t believe 2012 is almost here – where did 2011 go? I remember, as a child, my mum saying how time flew as you got older.  It seems such a bizarre concept when you’re young, that the speed of time could vary according to your age.  Those six week summers seemed more…

  • 9th December

    Taking the plunge I’ve thought quite a lot about how I became a writer, because it wasn’t something I aspired to be for a long time.  I had quite a lot of jobs, not loads, but a few.  After leaving school, I worked in a hospital preparing microfiche and locating medical records. It was pretty soul destroying.  Then…

  • 2nd December

    A Lorra Crazy Letters If you read my post of 4th November on the launch of Grub’s Pups, you may have noticed that I referred to a letter that I read out to everyone.  In fact, there were two of these – The Sunflower letter, and The Mushy Peas letter – and they form just…

  • 19th November

    Liebster Blog Award I’ve just been awarded my first blog award (tee hee) – isn’t it pretty? I was awarded this by YA writer Emma Pass, whose blog you can see here.  So thank you very much Emma for this lovely award, so gratefully received. Liebster is a German word meaning dearest, and the award…

  • 11th November

    Buried Treasures Hearing Voices vol. 4 Buried Treasures, the title of this blog, is also the title of a poem I’ve just had published (oh yes oh yes oh yes) in Hearing Voices Volume 4, a magazine put together by Crystal Clear Creators based in Leicestershire.  To say I am overjoyed is an understatement, especially…