Regarding resolutions

At this moment I am listening to the song ‘Ebeneezer Goode’, boiling half a dozen eggs, making myself a hot chocolate, and typing this blog. So perhaps resolution number one should be to stop straddling that fine line between multitasking and chaos before I set fire to the kitchen…? I’m not a big one for

Processing times may vary…

My son is going to be 16 tomorrow. Now, anyone who has read this blog for any amount of time will know that I am nothing if not easily distracted but this feels like a legitimate reason for once. 16…?! When the scallop did that happen? How am I a 52-year-old woman with dodgy joints

A Merry Thingy and A Happy New Whatsit

As we head into this festive season of…well, whatever and however you celebrate…I just want to wish you all Happy Writing. Literally. I wish for you some writing that makes you truly happy. I hope that you find time in all the hustle and bustle of family or work or overeating or present buying or

That’s better.

November and the epic disaster that was NaNoWriMo 2022 are now behind me and things are looking up. Rather than forcing myself to write something I wasn’t happy with I ducked out of the challenge and took some time off. I have been doing a bit of sketching and a new paint by numbers. There’s

NaNo-no.

I’ve never been one to push myself with my writing. I don’t mean that I don’t take risks or work hard or try new things because I do. What I mean is that I try to be kind and not give myself a hard time. And I certainly don’t push myself to write something that

NaNoAwayWeGo

For those of you not familiar with NaNoWriMo it is a writing challenge that happens every November and you sign up and commit to trying your best to write 50,000 words in the month. As the years go by this seems to get harder and harder. I find that real life intrudes more and more

Fun times??

Many years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth and my knees didn’t crack every time I stood up, I was a stage manager in professional theatre. Actually, let me clarify that – I was a DSM which is the deputy stage manager which is the person that sits at the side of the stage with

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

My son loved Bob The Builder when he was young and we would watch it regularly. In other words, all the fricking time. This was one of Bob’s catchphrases and it came back to me the other day when I was looking through some old notebooks. If you’re anything like me you have lots of

To Swear or Not to Swear.

Anyone who knows me in real life knows I love to swear and yet I don’t often do so in my writing. For some reason, the worst swear words will trip out of my mouth easily enough but when it comes to putting them into the mouths of my characters I am shy. That’s really

The Toddler Muse.

You know how they say that all creatives have a muse…well, in the past I always imagined them to be sort of ethereal and floaty with white robes and maybe even the odd harp. A cherub after the Atkins Diet, if you will. I saw muses as kind and worldly-wise beings who would gently guide