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Something just a little bit different. [scroll down for SSS]

Earlier in the week Sue Roebuck suggested we do some kind of writing challenge and I followed her into a collaborative writing challenge to write a story for Jennifer M Eaton’s blogiversary.

I have done this kind of thing before but only with a set structure – ie we knew in advance that we’d be writing something about vampires or motor racing. To have a completely open ended story is a real challenge. I for instance never thought in a million years I would write anything about fairies.

Here a...

Six Sentence Sunday

Here we go again – Six Sunday – go here and register then the following Sunday post six sentences from a published work or WIP.

I’m out and about today and don’t have access to A Fierce Reaping so Gwion and Cynfal can bide a while.

Instead here are six sentences from my story A Few Days Away which is *bounce* published today in the Lashings of Sauce anthology from JMS Books.

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Today in the Comfy Chair – Paula Sophia

My guest today is Paula Sophia whose work delves into the complexities endured by transgender characters as they try to balance their emotional needs against the demands of their professions.

Thanks, Paula Sophia for joining me today.

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Elin: Please can you tell me a little bit about the inspiration behind Hystericus? Have you always enjoyed storytelling or was the urge to write fiction a fairly recent development.

Paula Sophia: Hystericus came from a workshop exercise where we were instructe...

Six Sunday - a bit late

I have been forgetting to cross post my Six Sunday posts, so here is this weeks:


My six this week are taken from my WIP A Fierce Reaping – a story about a Romano-Celtic warband preparing to ride south to tackle Aethelfrith, a Saxon warleader who is pushing the boundaries north to threaten the lands of the Gododdin. War and mayhem is good fun to write but I think it’s more fun to read when a

Six Sentence Sunday

It’s Six Sentence Sunday time!

Go to the website here and there are links to click that will whizz you all around the world to read bits of stories from gritty sci fi, dystopian future, spine chilling horror and lots of heterotica! Something to suit every taste.

My six this week are taken from my WIP A Fierce Reaping – a story about a Romano-celtic warband preparing to ride south to tackle Aelthelfrith, a Saxon warleader who is pushing the boundaries north to threaten the lands of the Gododdin....

How to be a Writer

I see a lot of How To Be A Writer posts and they always cheer me up.

The internet is full of other people who seem just as anxious as I am to nail down the process into a series of simple instructions. Wouldn’t that be great? Wouldn’t it be super if you could buy “On Writing” by Stephen King, follow it page by page and end up with a novel, very much as one might follow a recipe to make apple crumble [peach cobbler if you come from a place where apple crumble does not exist].

Sadly it doesn’t wo...

Sort of Six Sentence Sunday

I forgot to register again *facepalm* but then I’ve a lot on my mind at the moment not all of which is bad, thank goodness.

Six Sentence Sunday is a fun way to read other authors work. It takes a long time but it very much worth doing because there are some terrific stories out there.

Ideally one is sensible enough to register with the website here then on the following Sunday post exactly six sentences taken from one of your works. Some people do lots of different books, taking the opportunity...

Editing Pirates

I’ve been busy for the past month editing and revising my pirate novel “On A Lee Shore” and, wouldn’t you know it, the damn thing has got bigger instead of shrinking. This is because as I read it through I’ve realised that I have missed out bits that I knew about the characters that the reader has no way of knowing.

I’m at a bit of a loss to know what to do with it when it’s finished because I

Last minute research

It’s never too late to fact check and in the past couple of days I’ve had some surprises. For instance I arbitrarily chose the Helston area for the home of my character Lt. Christopher Penrose, RN, in On A Lee Shore. I was fiddling round with maps yesterday and discovered that there’s a National Trust property called the Penrose Estate just to the south east of the town. I’m assuming that I sort of knew that but it’s so deeply buried in my internal hard drive that I didn’t know I knew it, if...

Editing and Pirates

An Illustration by Howard Pyle – he drew the BEST pirates.

I’ve been busy for the past month editing and revising my pirate novel “On A Lee Shore” and, wouldn’t you know it, the damn thing has got bigger instead of shrinking. This is because as I read it through I’ve realised that I have missed out bits that I knew about the characters that the reader has no way of knowing.

I’m at a bit of a loss to know what to do with it when it’s finished because I don’t think it’s sufficiently romantic and...