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January 20, 2016
You Know You’re A Writer When…
You spend your downtime daydreaming about the next thing you want to write. Sometimes your characters are the only real people you know. You look around you and rather than just appreciating the landscape, you think to yourself “This would make a great setting for a book!” You feel like you’ve been born in the […]
January 11, 2016
One Hundred Day Goal Here I Come!
You might remember in my last post, I said I preferred ‘plans’ to ‘goals’. So why, now, am I setting a goal and striving for it? Basically, I’m teaching myself how to stop faffing around, and just write the damn book. The Quiet One, my first novel, was supposed to be published by now. […]
January 5, 2016
Loving Louise
This is just a little taster for you of the world of provincial pre-revolutionary France, where my upcoming novel, The Hidden Duchess is set. 3900 words Louise sighed, irritated with herself. She had just daydreamed away a good half an hour – thinking about Francois again, of course. The always-present-but-completely-unattainable Francois. She pulled her puckering […]
January 2, 2016
Samira
4100 words In the cool of the evening, fewer visitors entered the temple of Sekhmet. Samira could finally sit down and rub her tired feet. Life at the temple was always busy – sweeping away the ever encroaching sand, making prayers and sacrifices to our Lady Sekhmet regularly to dampen her wrath, assisting the worshipers, […]
Behind the Door
This is one of my very favoritest poems – I know that’s not a word, but I’m pretty sure this particular poem needs a new word to explain it. When I was a girl, and the world trouble free, There was only one thing that was bothering me, The new house was finished, apart from […]
December 31, 2015
Sometimes you just need to give yourself a good talking to…
If you had asked me last night how I would be feeling today, I probably would have told you flat, down, sad, or one of a thousand other words a writer might use to describe being in the doldrums. I was watching the back end of 2015 pass, and feeling like crap. I didn’t know […]
