It’s Day 5 of the 30 Day Writing Challenge. I’ve been a bit short on time today, so I decided to set a timer and write this post, using the prompt: This Road. I like writing to a timer – it’s a clear window of time in which I’m allowed to do nothing except write,Continue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day 5 – This Road”
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30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Four – Mirror
It’s day four of the 30 day writing challenge, and today’s prompt is: Mirror. I had a few different thoughts about how to approach this prompt, but the lines from Tennyson’s Lady Of Shalott kept playing over and over in my head, and so I felt I needed to share them. These particular lines describeContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Four – Mirror”
30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Three – Faces In The Street
It’s day three of the challenge, and today’s prompt is: Faces In The Street. This prompt is quite apropos, as I happened to be in London today – I love the city but find crowds overwhelming at times, so it’s always nice to return to the relative solitude of home. As it’s been quite aContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day Three – Faces In The Street”
Thirty Day Writing Challenge – Day 2 – Open Door
Today’s prompt is: Open Door For this post I’ve pulled a short scene from Silver and Black, the vampire novel I’ve been working on this past while. It seemed to fit the prompt quite well… Silver and Black (an excerpt) ‘Are you ready?’ I was. Despite not wanting to leave Kyle, despite the fact thatContinue reading “Thirty Day Writing Challenge – Day 2 – Open Door”
30 Day Writing Challenge – Day 1 – Things We Carry
Okay, I know I’m a day late, but it’s been a busy week and I just found out about this writing challenge. The idea is to write a blog post based on a prompt for the next thirty days, fiction or non-fiction. As I’m a little behind the eight ball on this one, I’m pullingContinue reading “30 Day Writing Challenge – Day 1 – Things We Carry”
Writers In The Attic, Friends Around The World
Today I’m quite honoured to be visiting author Louise Allan’s blog, as part of her Writers in the Attic series. Please do pop over and take a look, and also check out some of the other writers featured in the series – each of them have a story to tell, whether it’s about how theyContinue reading “Writers In The Attic, Friends Around The World”
Microfiction Challenge #23 – Dragon Egg
Jane Dougherty has a wonderful knack of choosing interesting image prompts for her poetry and fiction challenges. I couldn’t resist these two dragons holding an egg, and here is my response: ‘It’s not very big, is it.’ ‘I can assure you sir, it’s the accessory of the season. All the most stylish dragons–’ ‘But isContinue reading “Microfiction Challenge #23 – Dragon Egg”
Jack Of All Trades
I was thinking, the other day, about all the different jobs I’ve had. Apart from four months off after having a baby and a couple of months after university when I moved cross-country, I’ve worked pretty much continuously since I was fifteen. So here, in no particular order, are all the different paying jobs I’veContinue reading “Jack Of All Trades”
A Wild Ride
I tried this whole planning thing. Honestly, I really did. I spent ages making little chart-y things and tables, planning my blog posts and work weeks and monthly goals. I tried writing out chapter lists and character arcs and tying them all together into some sort of marvellous grid that would become a whole bigContinue reading “A Wild Ride”
How Does Your NaNo Grow?
It’s the first week of November and, for many of you out there, it’s also the first week of this year’s NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. (For those of you who don’t know, November is the month when writers around the world challenge themselves to write 50,000 words, or the best part of aContinue reading “How Does Your NaNo Grow?”
Helen Glynn Jones 