Exercise “How much exercise do you do a week?” the doctor asked looking over his glasses at me. “Um…” I cough into my hand and try to think past the cold I’ve actually come about. “Not much I guess. I help run a market garden.” I smile and wish I were anywhere else. I know… Continue reading Exercise
Tag: writing
Words in a day
I have taken up the challenge to produce a piece of creative writing a day... So begins my 'Words a day' challenge... and yes I am already behind... Oops! Still below is the challenge for the 1st Jan 2013. The word is the title of the piece, this is a 100 word short story. A… Continue reading Words in a day
Research and how much of a story ought to be true?
I was researching an essay on Dinosaur Footprints and I decided to include North Brother Island, which is an abandoned quarantine island between the Bronx and Queens. There is an abandoned leper colony in America, right next to NYC… If you look at it online then you can see the devastation, the trees growing through… Continue reading Research and how much of a story ought to be true?
A conundrum
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of consequence." Cyril Connolly This was posted in the Thresholds Facebook page... and it got me thinking. Is the only true function of a writer to create a… Continue reading A conundrum
Boxing day and big brown bears
It is strange when you realise just how young you were when you started to expand your vocabulary. Twas Boxing day yesterday and my sister and her tiny son (less than a year old) were round for Christmas leftovers. Well after eating she was playing with Bill and suddenly he takes off for the kitchen,… Continue reading Boxing day and big brown bears
It’s Christmas!
Well almost. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I am sitting in front of the Christmas tree and trying to ignore the Christmas special on the telly. Enough 'Christmas's'? I think so. Don't get me wrong I'm not a bar-humbug type of person but I do hate the commercialism of it all. My gifts this year… Continue reading It’s Christmas!
How do you write a two-way radio dialogue?
So I am working on a story and I need my character - a mountain rescuer - to talk to his boss on the two-way in his back pocket. I've already got dialogue in the story so the use of "-" doesn't make it different enough. So do I bold it or CAPITALISE it or… Continue reading How do you write a two-way radio dialogue?
Christmas and mince pies
12th December 2012 Well that was the last lecture of this year and I must admit I was lulled into a false sense of security... There were mince pies and cheesy biscuits and all sorts of goodies including jilebies (an indian sweet that I'm particularly addicted to). So there we all were quietly eating and drinking pomegranate juice -… Continue reading Christmas and mince pies
Essays
5th December 2012 "Essays?" I asked, "really? Like factual... well... essays?" Shockingly the answer was - yes. Now I'm confused. I have an archaeology degree and essays where the pattern of life... How can you use the present to analyse the past? And so on. But I never anticipated anything would be like it in… Continue reading Essays
Translation and… creative writing
28th November 2012 (yes I know this is very late - in my defence though I've been up to my eyeballs in toys as my actual job is a toymaker! Feeling very much like a christmas elf right at the moment. An overworked underpaid elf, but an elf none the less.) Yep you heard right… Continue reading Translation and… creative writing
Kate Murray - Cleaver 