Me and the wife like to go to the beach. Each time I go I signs like the one below, and each time there are people walking their dogs on the beach! Now we are dog people but it annoys the hell out of me when I see this. The beaches are closed to dogs…
Sat down to do tonight’s writing and I am struggling to stay awake, but I was determined to get something down so I can try and keep up with this challenge. I am away Sunday/Monday so will also have to make sure I try and keep up with it then as well. Quite happy that…
It’s that time of year again and it’s time to start thinking of goals that I want to achieve in 2015. I loath to use the term resolutions but in effect even though I am calling them goals it is the same thing. So here is the basic list (in no particular order) of what…
I went to Costa a few days ago and took my notepad, I wasn’t planning on doing anything much but ended up hand writing a flash fiction story while there, the most I have done in a cafe before now was notes. I was quite happy with the result. Once home I typed it up…
“Anyone who procrastinates will find it difficult to get published. You have to work, every day, on improving your craft. Otherwise, you won’t improve” This quote was in Writing Magazine on October 19 by Vaseem Khan. It struck a chord with me as I am one of these people. I do the odd post on…
I know I am not currently published, but I plan to be. So it’s quite worrying to read all of the news articles talking about how some publishers and magazines are demanding all rights when writers submit work to them. As much as I want to be published if I was to see something like…
Well for all my planning it’s happening again. A mix of time to get the writing done and lack of planning. The first three chapters went quite well, but then I hit a wall and just didn’t know how to move the story forward. I have been stuck at this for days. As a result…
I have a problem…. they say the first step to getting help is to admit you have a problem. I do! I have a hoarding mentality and because of this, I have several collections. Dice/Cards/Books/Cups and many other things. So tech is something that didn’t escape. In my office, I have 3 desks now. The…
“Motivation is a theoretical construct used to explain behaviour” I’m a big guy, I wasn’t always like this it started with getting with my wife and slowly crept up on me. I know the saying goes I woke up one day and I was fat, people say how can that happen. You must have seen…
It’s the 30th December 2024 and we have one more day before the dawn of a new year. I haven’t made any concrete plans for 2025 other than some sweeping goals I would like to achieve. The first one is to start regular writing and, in that vein, complete the first draft of Rise of…
