Monthly Archives: December 2016

30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Twenty One – Everybody (also, A Wednesday Wander)

It’s day twenty one of the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and today’s prompt is: Everybody. It’s also Wednesday, which means I’ll be taking a wander. However, in line with the prompt, this wander will be slightly different in that I’ll be trying to answer a question that just about everybody asks me, once they hearContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Twenty One – Everybody (also, A Wednesday Wander)”

30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Twenty – Supermarket

It’s day twenty of the Thirty Day Writing Challenge, and today’s prompt is: Supermarket. I was going to write a little piece about how I have to go to the supermarket tomorrow, and how at this time of year it’s heaving with people pushing overloaded trolleys and looking perplexed, as though they’ve never been inContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Twenty – Supermarket”

30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Nineteen – Walk Away

So, it’s day nineteen of the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and today’s prompt is: Walk Away. I’m starting to wonder why I chose to undertake a thirty day blogging challenge during one of the busiest times of the year. A time where there are lunches and dinners and drinks, shopping and cooking and work andContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Nineteen – Walk Away”

30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Eighteen – Warning

It’s day eighteen of the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and today’s prompt is: Warning. When I read the prompt it made me think of the weather and how quickly it can change – in Melbourne they say you can experience all four seasons in one day, and when I lived there I soon learned toContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Eighteen – Warning”

30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Seventeen – Early Morning

Earlier this week I shared this image on my Instagram account. It was taken one early morning as I walked past the park. Mist hung low beneath the trees, the light behind turning them to silhouettes and it seemed so serene to me, the mist like a blanket on the grass, that I had toContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Seventeen – Early Morning”

30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Sixteen – Small Things

Today is day sixteen of the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and the prompt is: Small Things. It’s been a funny old week with lots going on, and I’ve just realised that I forgot to take a Wednesday Wander! I’m think perhaps this blogging challenge has thrown me off course a little – I tend notContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Sixteen – Small Things”

30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Fifteen – Witness

It’s day fifteen, half way through the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and today’s prompt is: Witness I’d had a little flicker of an Ambeth story running through my mind and it seemed to work with this prompt, the idea of the trees as silent witnesses being quite insistent. If you’ve read the books, you mayContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Fifteen – Witness”

Guest Author Margarita Morris – Scarborough Ball

Today I’m thrilled to welcome author Margarita Morris to my blog. As writers, we often choose to set our stories in real-life locales we know well, our experience and knowledge of the locale helping us to add extra layers of detail to the story. In this post, Margarita discusses her connection to the northern coastalContinue reading “Guest Author Margarita Morris – Scarborough Ball”

30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Fourteen – Home

It’s day fourteen of the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and today’s prompt is: Home. I’ve been at home for most of today, which I’ve enjoyed. It’s a busy time of year and, as a bit of an introvert, home is where I go to recharge. It’s also where I write. Even though I’m *supposed* toContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Fourteen – Home”