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  • The Green Woman by Jane Dougherty : a new edition!

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: It gives me great pleasure to turn the blog over today to author Jane Dougherty… Thank you, Sue, for taking time off from packing boxes and creating gardens to let me borrow your blog today and for setting up this post. If JRR Tolkein could do it…

  • Almost…

    looking forward to sharing this journey… The Silent Eye Ten days to go. The countdown is on as I begin to pack for Egypt. No planes or airports involved either… just a nice, leisurely drive to Derbyshire; two hundred miles and over three thousand years back in time to a place where the gods of…

  • Book Review: Just The Way You Are by Lynsey James

    Jenny in Neverland Title: Just The Way You Are Author: Lynsey James Publisher: Carina UK Blurb: Dear Ava, How do you start writing a letter to someone, six years after breaking their heart? Ava is unlucky in love as well as in life. The new office bitch has landed the dating column Ava wanted, and…

  • How To Find Writing Ideas

    How To Find Writing Ideas

    Cynthia Harrison Where do you get your ideas? For writers, that is the most frequently asked question. It seems to vex many of my writer friends, but I’m not sure why. Maybe they don’t want to admit that they do nothing to produce ideas, that ideas simply float into their heads. Well, anyway, that’s what happens…

  • The spirit of the dog

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: I recently mentioned a labradoodle named Fionn who has just been diagnosed with Addison’s disease. His human half is  Morgana West, affectionately known as Morgy… a Yorkshire lass in Glastonbury… she has written a superb article on how the love of a dog helps us find balance.…

  • Time

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Canopied ruin Silent wheels no longer turn Yet the mill-race flows

  • #AtoZChallenge: K is for Kill your Darlings

    Alison Williams Writing For the A-Z challenge, I am posting writing and editing tips to help you improve and enhance your writing. K is for Kill Your Darlings This is the thing that, in my experience, writers find the hardest to do. ‘Killing’ the bits of your writing that you think are the best bits,…

  • 33 Before 33

    Jenny in Neverland This year, I turn 23. I’m very much enjoying my 20’s but can’t help but think about how quickly it’ll be over (translation: I’m having a premature quarter life crisis) and how many things I’d still like to achieve while I’m still young. So.. Lo and behold, my 33 before 33 list.…

  • Family feeling

    The Silent Eye There was no doubt about it, this was a happy fish. You might not have really paid much attention without the contrast of the rest of them, but against their small darts and lazy swishes, this one stood out. It zoomed across the pond, a silvery streak of energy, stopping just short…

  • If We Were Having Coffee – A Week Of Highs For Being An Author

    Originally posted on Rebecca Bradley: The #weekendcoffeeshare is the brainchild of PartTimeMonster. We sit down every weekend and share our week in a more informal, personal way than maybe the rest of our blog posts are written. Feel free to join in. If we were having coffee I’d say it’s been a few weeks since…

  • The Green Woman by Jane Dougherty : a new edition!

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: It gives me great pleasure to turn the blog over today to author Jane Dougherty… Thank you, Sue, for taking time off from packing boxes and creating gardens to let me borrow your blog today and for setting up this post. If JRR Tolkein could do it…

  • Almost…

    looking forward to sharing this journey… The Silent Eye Ten days to go. The countdown is on as I begin to pack for Egypt. No planes or airports involved either… just a nice, leisurely drive to Derbyshire; two hundred miles and over three thousand years back in time to a place where the gods of…

  • Book Review: Just The Way You Are by Lynsey James

    Jenny in Neverland Title: Just The Way You Are Author: Lynsey James Publisher: Carina UK Blurb: Dear Ava, How do you start writing a letter to someone, six years after breaking their heart? Ava is unlucky in love as well as in life. The new office bitch has landed the dating column Ava wanted, and…

  • How To Find Writing Ideas

    How To Find Writing Ideas

    Cynthia Harrison Where do you get your ideas? For writers, that is the most frequently asked question. It seems to vex many of my writer friends, but I’m not sure why. Maybe they don’t want to admit that they do nothing to produce ideas, that ideas simply float into their heads. Well, anyway, that’s what happens…

  • The spirit of the dog

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: I recently mentioned a labradoodle named Fionn who has just been diagnosed with Addison’s disease. His human half is  Morgana West, affectionately known as Morgy… a Yorkshire lass in Glastonbury… she has written a superb article on how the love of a dog helps us find balance.…

  • Time

    Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Canopied ruin Silent wheels no longer turn Yet the mill-race flows

  • #AtoZChallenge: K is for Kill your Darlings

    Alison Williams Writing For the A-Z challenge, I am posting writing and editing tips to help you improve and enhance your writing. K is for Kill Your Darlings This is the thing that, in my experience, writers find the hardest to do. ‘Killing’ the bits of your writing that you think are the best bits,…

  • 33 Before 33

    Jenny in Neverland This year, I turn 23. I’m very much enjoying my 20’s but can’t help but think about how quickly it’ll be over (translation: I’m having a premature quarter life crisis) and how many things I’d still like to achieve while I’m still young. So.. Lo and behold, my 33 before 33 list.…

  • Family feeling

    The Silent Eye There was no doubt about it, this was a happy fish. You might not have really paid much attention without the contrast of the rest of them, but against their small darts and lazy swishes, this one stood out. It zoomed across the pond, a silvery streak of energy, stopping just short…

  • If We Were Having Coffee – A Week Of Highs For Being An Author

    Originally posted on Rebecca Bradley: The #weekendcoffeeshare is the brainchild of PartTimeMonster. We sit down every weekend and share our week in a more informal, personal way than maybe the rest of our blog posts are written. Feel free to join in. If we were having coffee I’d say it’s been a few weeks since…