How to get back to writing after a break? My mental switch-off started well before Christmas when I took a holiday that turned out to be both self-indulgent (manicure and massage for madam?) and tiring (two night flights). Then there was the supermarket sweep (or three) to prepare for influx of visitors, ending in that all … Continue reading Started early, wrote my blog
Despite the impersonal look of those iconic buildings, Dubai is an accessible and surprisingly friendly city. December was a good month to go with temperatures similar to a really hot summer’s day in UK and a holiday mood among local ex-pats. Despite glitzy trees tucked neatly into lots of corners, Christmassy it was not, but I … Continue reading Picture post : there and back again
I met Nina a few years ago when I first joined Bristol Women writers and she was already an ‘old hand’. Since then we’ve both been through a few life changes but have continued to meet up every few weeks until this summer when she and husband Jim made the move fromBristoltoWest Wales. I’m delighted … Continue reading My guest today is Nina Milton
to check in on Tuesday when a guest blogger will be taking my place. Meanwhile I am Kindled up with, amongst others, Michael Morpugo’s War Horse and Nicola Morgan’s Mondays are Red ( for my book group January theme of children or YA) Satchfield Hall – dastardly family deeds by Pauline Barclay Are we nearly … Continue reading Don’t forget!
Pausing between reviews (and other on-going projects) to think about how a plot needs to have some element of surprise. This might sound like stating the obvious, but if it was something I knew as a reader, it took me longer to work it out as a writer. It started when a fellow writer commented … Continue reading Oh yes! The art of surprise
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