When I was a kid, I used to watch Inspector Gadget. He was pretty stupid, but as I fancied myself to be the brains of my own fictional crime solving, spying, snooping universe, I figured I was more of a Penny. Oh how I coveted that magical computer book of hers! Then one day, not…
I’ve reached one! Hurrah! I managed to crack 15,000 words on one of my WIPs! I really like this story because it’s light hearted and a little bit silly and lets me write the way that comes most naturally to me – which is in itself quite silly and not at all grandiose and fanciful.…
I have finally managed to do a Friday Fumbling! Granted, it is on a Saturday but I told you I would make an effort. The young girl wrinkled her nose and grimaced as they drew closer to the outskirts of the city. They smelled wrong and nobody ever smiled. They were awful places. She caught…
I’m looking forward to this one – I’ve been hanging on to it for a while now. A few weeks ago I took my daughter down to the local hip and happening spot for the vertically and age-challenged. It’s usually an interesting place to do some people watching. This particular time I was letting my…
I still haven’t managed to work my way through A Dance With Dragons yet, but I have been doing a lot of thinking and planning on my WIP. I think I want to switch my main character, Darcy, with her best friend Valerie, as she’s far more suited to the kind of black humour that…
I am working on several pieces of short fiction at the moment, but I have a very grumpy baby who is not letting me have five minutes to myself. I’m hoping I can get the first one up today sometime. Crap, there she goes crying again – maybe not!
I sat down tonight with the intention to jot down a few paragraphs about a story people are continuously begging me to tell – the birth of my daughter. It’s not exactly the ordinary, run of the mill birth story – she was born in the middle of a cyclone evacuation and it’s not a…
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