Harry Nicholson's Blog: 1513fusion, page 7

Saltwick Bay

Yesterday I spent an hour or so alone on this shore at Saltwick a couple of miles south of Whitby, North Yorkshire. Below are the remains of the harbour where 19th C luggers once beached to load alum. Remains of … Continue reading →

That’s The Way to Do It

Egton show last month – it was dry for a change – we watched the Punch and Judy right through (when was the last time? Yonks ago.) After that I had a week in a converted WW2 Observation post opposite … Continue reading →

Blooming Heather

We are just back from a ‘quick’ trip onto the local moor to see the heather in bloom, it is exceptional this year. I took an obscure road, and got lost in the midst of the greater North Yorks Moors … Continue reading →

‘Screen Machine’ Mobile Cinema

We are recently returned from the Isle of Arran. My birthday treat was a visit to the flicks; a mobile cinema that tours the Highlands and Islands. The walls expand and the seats unfold so that it can seat 80. … Continue reading →

What a Poetry Reviewer looks for

Originally posted on Emma Lee's Blog:
I recently came across a suggestion that self-published poetry books could be seen as lacking credibility or editorial rigour. That’s not my experience as a reviewer. It’s fair to say a self-published poet…

Winter North Yorkshire

2014/2015. We’ve had hardly any snow, little rain, but plenty of sunny gales. Blown sand at Sandsend, it stung the face and got up the nose. Let’s hope the trawlerman got home safe. Boulder clay cliffs (glacial lateral moraine) lumps … Continue reading →

Wandering About

After gentle prompts from my good lady, this month I published many of my poems from the last twenty years. It was easily done through CreateSpace, and is to be found as paperback and eBook on Amazon, Poems inspired by … Continue reading →

No vaping in the garden.

In Grosmont this morning, after cheesecake and coffee in a teashop by the heritage steam railway (Whitby to Pickering line) – ‘Thank you for not smoking or vaping in the teashop garden’, the sign outside said. I was considering the … Continue reading →

Enamel Bowl

11x19cm I made this bowl from scrap copper. It’s been knocking around the workshop for five years, complete with its base coat. I’d become weary of it staring at me – so I finished it today. It’s big enough to …

Storyboarding Your Books

Originally posted on Cate Russell-Cole: CommuniCATE:
Popular book-writing blogger, Mary Carroll Moore, talks about how a storyboard designs your book’s flow of chapters and ideas.