I’ve just spent a very enjoyable evening doing nothing but knitting a sock, and watching the first three episodes of Castle. Now, most evenings, I make myself sit down and do some ‘work’. It might be drawing, or working out some more ‘punchlines’ for my forthcoming comic, or it might be working on the next […]
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Spoken Sunday
I wrote a blog post on Tuesday about the new phenomenon of AudioBoo, and how much I’m enjoying figuring it out. Well now there’s an extra reason to get on board, as Benjamin Solah’s #SpokenSunday hashtag gets into full swing! Benjamin’s written a post over on the Spoken Sunday blog to explain in greater detail, but […]
Friday Flash – Unforgettable
This story is currently down as I have entered it into a competition!
The AudioBoo Bug (How I Was Bitten)
In this hot, sticky summer of mosquitoes and other flying nasties, I have been bitten. Oh yes. By the AudioBoo bug. Ha! Bet you thought I was going to say something else. Well, it’s true. And it’s all the fault of two very lovely ladies (and very talented writers), Annie Evett and Jodi Cleghorn. I […]
Fiction Friday – Pieces o’ Eight
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; “Include a telepathic parrot in your story..” “What shall we do with the drunken sailoooooooooooooooooooooooooor!” Captain Scarlight lurched across the street. His voice cracked as he held the already-flat note. He threw his arms around a lamp […]
Amid the noise and haste, go I
The New Author has posted an interesting entry about the types of environment in which writers write best, and it got me thinking about my own creative process. Indeed, my very good friend Thomas D. Szewc asked me a very similar question over on my Formspring a couple of weeks ago. I’ve always been the kind […]
