Category: life as an author
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Better Days are Coming!
I could feel the stirrings of something new and very different yesterday. I didn’t dwell on it too much, as there hasn’t been much good news lately, and I didn’t want to scare it off. But even though I tried to ignore it, the feeling persisted. I was beginning to feel very different. Dare I…
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A Sunday Smile…
There are bright blue skies and sunshine today, a pleasant surprise after so many grey and miserable days.#I slipped on my flip flops and ventured outside, hoping for some signs of Spring. There were no buds on the bonsai, and everywhere I looked, there were dark, bare, empty branches. No other welcome signs of Spring.…
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Battle Progress
Monday morning, and I have just spent an hour grappling with an uncooperative and unrecognizable brain. Not that it’s ever much more than begrudging at this time of day! I have to try to cope with the technical stuff early, before I have exhausted my grey cells completely. 200 emails cleared, comments from our friends…
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2026 is looking better already!
The Chinese New Year: The year of the Fire Horse… (February 17, 2026 -February 5, 2027) I don’t think I would get any argument as to whether last year was worth our time. So, news of a possible better year is most welcome! Apparently, this will be a year that moves quickly and thinks even…
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Me and Snow…
The weather here in the south of England has turned really cold. A bitter wind from the Arctic is doing its best to freeze our toes off. It is almost too cold for rational or creative thought, but I am doing my best and managing to enjoy working on the current WIP. Our year probably…
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Sunday, Sunday…
Morning everybody! It is really cold here in the UK now, unusually cold for us, with temperatures as low as -5 in the south and a staggering -10 in Scotland. We cannot keep the house warm, and we are walking around like Eskimos! There is a bright side to all this weather; we have been…
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Where I am right about now…
I started 2025 as the person I thought I knew, warts and all, familiar, but someone I thought I could trust. Life wasn’t easy, but it seemed doable. Then, all of a sudden, it wasn’t doable any more. Thinking back to the beginning of my troubles, when my legs stopped trying to move, I realise…
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A New and Better Week?
Last week, to put it mildly, was a shambles. One of the worst weeks since my troubles began. Just when I thought I had everything under control, fate decided to put me right on just about everything. I have calmed down now, but it was scary for a while there. I have had to rethink…
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Sunday Sunshine…
Yes, the sun is shining, outside and in. I am in a determined and cheerful mood today. Don’t ask me why, but maybe I am fed up with sadness and sorrow… I woke up this morning with one thought going round and around in my head. Nothing is impossible, we only think it is. So…
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As it was in the Beginning… #Fiction #Mystery
Although I used to dream about writing when I was younger, life came along and made sure I forgot to remember this, always finding new ways to keep my mind from straying. Even when my sister, Anita started to write and needed help with transcribing and editing her own stories, my own dreams stayed dormant,…