W.J. Lennox's Blog, page 3
July 21, 2017
Tales from Wales. Part 1: Beaches and Blisters
Tales from Wales. Part 1: Beaches and Blisters
Summer has arrived – apparently. I’ve been so entrenched in my writing cave, I probably would have let it float merrily on by without so much as glance up from my computer screen if two bored teenagers hadn’t started flicking stones at my precious MacBook. At first I ignored them, annoyed and slightly unsettled by their rare and unexpected appearance into my subterranean domain. And then it hit me – not one of their badly-aimed pebbles – but the full horror of why they were pestering me at 10...
June 1, 2017
Review of Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Back cover
Before the beginning there was nothing – no earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mist world, formless and shapeless, and the fire world, always burning.
From the dawn of the world to the twilight of the gods, this is a dazzling retelling of the great Norse myths from the award-winning, bestselling Neil Gaiman.
About the Book
From the Amazon Product Page: The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling – from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcli...
May 1, 2017
May Traditions and Superstitions
Welcome to the merry month of May. Named after Maia, the Greek goddess of spring, fertility and growth, May has long been regarded as a time of celebration in the northern hemisphere to mark the end of the dark months of winter and welcome in the coming light of summer.
Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun – Khalil Gibran
if you were lucky enough to get the day off work to celebrate the May Day holiday, you might well have spent it in the company of friends and family, enjoying some...
April 19, 2017
Welcome to Wendy’s House Party!
Come in, come in and pull up a cardboard box. I’m a bit short on chairs. I don’t usually get many visitors. Plenty of spiders and spambots.
But humans – not so much!
Those of you who have already popped around for a brew and a blether, might notice there’s something different about Chez Wendy. That’s because I’ve just moved into my snazzy new writer’s pad.
Yay me!
Now, I’m not saying my old website didn’t have its own special charm, (hubby kindly built it from scratch, so it’s probably best I...
April 4, 2017
December 24, 2016
A Year of Triumphs and Tribulations
It’s been five months since my last confession. No, I’m not Catholic or particularly religious, just a shame-faced writer who hasn’t updated their blog since *cough* July. I can already hear the incredulous gasps echoing across cyberspace from all you seasoned bloggers out there, who would never dream of letting their well-oiled blog slip for even a month. Well, all I can do is hang my head in shame and promise to do better. Except I probably won’t – at least not until I’ve finished The Crys...
August 15, 2016
Seat of Stone and Legend. Hill of Magnitude and Love.
A hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Last weekend, I went climbing. No, not a mountain. A hill.
But not just any hill.
This iconic landmark dominates the skyline of a special city that’s very dear to my heart. For those of you who have visited Edinburgh, you’ll know that I’m talking about Arthur’s Seat. Situated in Holyrood Park at the end of the Royal Mile, it’s the highest of Edinburgh’s seven hills at 822 feet, providing a perfect vantag...
July 17, 2016
A Grand Old Week in Yorkshire
Back home from our family holiday in North Yorkshire. A grand time was had by all, although my feet might need another week to recover from the amount of sightseeing we packed in. Ashamed to admit that I was breaking out in a cold sweat at the thought of taking time away from my writing and disconnecting myself from social media, but a change of scenery and some brisk sea air was just what I needed to blow away the cobwebs and indulge in some of my favourite pastimes: castles, chilling with a...
May 3, 2016
Celebrating Success and Accepting Failure
It’s been a long and challenging climb to get here, but I’m delighted to announce that I’ve completed the final revisions for The Book of Seven. In total, it’s taken 2 years and four months to both write and edit and comes in at a rather hefty 136K words.
You don’t have to tell me that’s a hell of a long time and a lot of words, (believe me, I felt every one of them) but I make no apologies. That’s the length it needed to be to best tell the second part of the trilogy, and within...
