I’ve put aside my usual forays into flash fiction to write this. It’s in honour of the appalling debacle of British politics that has formed our 2010 General Election. * * * He sits on a sofa in a sunny corridor. He can feel himself sinking into the seat pad. He wonders how many have […]
Bluebeard’s Egg – Margaret Atwood
As it is with so many others, it was The Handmaid’s Tale that got me. A friend bought it for me for one Christmas, and I was hooked. Margaret Atwood has the kind of easy, loose style that I would sell body parts to be able to write myself, and when I found Bluebeard’s Egg […]
Tuesday Serial – It Begins
I was part of a Twitter discussion last week with a collective of other writers who are all attempting web serials, and we’ve decided to make Tuesday our ‘serial day’. Previously I’d been updating Tales from Vertigo City on Fridays, which is already #FridayFlash day, and I’ve often wondered if there’s too much of a […]
Fiction Friday #8
Here’s my attempt for this week’s Fiction Friday challenge on the Write Anything blog, also submitted to the Friday Flash collection. The prompt was; “My husband doesn’t know, but he will soon.” Maddie lay on the couch by the window. One hand clutched a mug of cocoa, while the other curled around the swell of her […]
When Reality and Fiction Collide
I had a rather odd experience tonight, and I want to share it in case anyone has ever had anything similar happen to them. I was on the tube, heading home from a most enjoyable evening, when I noticed a white postage label stuck to the corner of the briefcase belonging to the man two […]
New Writing Schedule
I read this post on the Write Anything blog (which you should ALL be reading!) by the very lovely Jodi Cleghorn, and it really got me thinking about my writing schedule. I’ve never really had one, aside from trying to write the next installment of my serial on Wednesdays, so I can post it on […]
