Writing Conferences

I am a subscriber in three writing magazines and when I am reading through I am forever seeing advertisements for writing conferences or retreats. It’s frustrating as I really like the look of these but for someone like me they are out of my reach. Most of them are down south, there don’t appear to…

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Keep the Faith & Yahoo

I have managed to keep up the posting, although i’m not taking my own advice and still doing it last thing at night and so on some nights I have forgot. I really need to take control of my time management somehow. Anyway tonight’s post will be about Yahoo, you remember that site. It’s the…

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Day off and NaNo 2024 start

Well, it is almost midnight on the 31st of October, and although I would normally have a good plan in place for NaNo by now, this year I don’t really have anything prepped. I had planned to pick up my Fantasy novel Rise of the Fallen and see if I could finish it, but given…

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Procrastination Station

I’m stood here on the platform……. I need to get out of here! I kept up with the blog when I was running the challenge but as you can see once that motivation left so did the updates…. I’m goin gto have to end up running a challenge every month just to get myself in…

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Bookshops

Went to a carboot the other day and there is a permanent book/video shop there is a shed of some sort. It hasn’t been open when I have been before but was this time so i called in. Loads of books, looks like an old fashioned bookshop, I liked it. Plenty of books in the…

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The death of the book – Not!

I keep reading articles talking about the death of the printed book as the Ebook revolution continues. It always makes me smile. Given the calls when the DVD was released that CD’s were a dead format and the same calls when BluRay was standardised that the DVD was dead. yet both formats are being produced…

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Lake in Wales

Nearly mid year…..

Well…. the last post on this blog was 6 months ago. It was my new year post and I had so many dreams. Admittedly the same dreams I have each year and each year I don’t really get too far into them. So far this year I have done little writing progress, read less than…

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Annoyed!!!

I just wrote a massive blog styled post and then when I tried to post it, something went wrong and I lost the whole thing….. The rage is threatening to take over, it is fast turning out to be a very frustrating day!

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