I have a character on a boat... She has been alone for about 15k words but suddenly she has company. True the character that she is with could be mortally wounded (I haven't decided yet), but the fact she is now talking to him means the dynamic of the story has started to change. Up… Continue reading Dialogue vs internal musing
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Sickness and imagination
It's odd... I mean I have been ill for the last week. A nasty norovirus that has left me feeling bad and facing the prospect that it hasn't finished with me yet. I hope it has, but I'm not certain. That brings me to the imagination bit. You see I have been a little out… Continue reading Sickness and imagination
Children’s novels are novels
I have four stories waiting to be edited and in some cases completely rewritten. Except they aren't really stories. They are novels. Not for the adult market but for the children's one. I love the stories and I really want to get them published but they are hard work... Surely they are easier? Is something… Continue reading Children’s novels are novels
Reporting vs writing
There are points in my month where sitting down with a good book is something I just have to do... It's a compulsion... I'm an avid reader, but at this time I can read all night, grab a three hour sleep and then go write only to pick up a book again and start reading.… Continue reading Reporting vs writing
Competitions vs publishing
There has to be a balance. I can't always write small things for competitions but at the same time I can't always be working on longer pieces. How many competitions should I do? The problem is the feeling that I have missed an opportunity... It sits in my gut like a rock. I don't like… Continue reading Competitions vs publishing
Truly Madly Deeply
I have just finished writing about David Bowie when another of my hero's dies. I hate this... Alan Rickman has brought us the best villains and the sopiest romantic leads. He has scared us and confounded us but through it all I believed him. As he danced in Truly Madly Deeply to when he fell… Continue reading Truly Madly Deeply
You have no power over me….
You have no power over me... That was the line that Sarah always forgot in the Labyrinth. Upon saying it the Goblin King and his world shattered, a happy ending. Except it wasn't. As the owl that was the Goblin King sat outside the window and looked into Sarah's bedroom filled with laughter and fun,… Continue reading You have no power over me….
Fermentation
I have started a new project and I managed to get the first 1000 words down today but after I found myself tired but looking at half a day of not much to do. We had my sister's kids over and I had two options; to go into the workshop and paint or to do… Continue reading Fermentation
A new trend…
I'm shocked that my writing has changed but so far this year it is evolving fast. You see at the end of last year I sent one of my children's stories off to a competition but after I had written it I found I was 1500 words over! I normally hit the word count beautifully. Now… Continue reading A new trend…
Short Story from ‘Love Just Is’ – Fate
Fate My granddad, used to say that we are the sum of what we endure, and he would have known suffering, as he had polio as a child and experienced pain throughout his life. I was thinking about this on that bleak November morning in the curious half-sleep that visits the anxious, when a terrifying… Continue reading Short Story from ‘Love Just Is’ – Fate
Kate Murray - Cleaver 