Cheating!!!

Ok, so I have been busy tonight and only just managed to get on, I know that technically I have missed a day, but as I haven’t been to bed yet I am not going to class this as a miss. As long as I still post later on today 🙂 Started on the addiction…

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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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What am I up to

Been a while since I posted an update and since then I have been to Fantasycon. It was a brilliant weekend full of all manner of writerly people, panels, and lots and lots of books. Which is something I love. I overspent on books but then I saved the money for Fantasycon so it was…

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Poorly

I haven’t forgotten about posting, I have been ill for the last few days so not been in the mood to do much of anything. Same tonight, been to the cinema to watch Girl on a Train, but come back with a massive headache. Took some pills and I’m about to go to bed. Tomorrow…

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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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NaNo prep time

It’s that time of the year again. Time for me to say I am preparing while making procrastination an art…. I mean time to get planning my Acomia Fantasy project. I need to flesh out some of the world-building as I have changed a few things and then minimally plot out the story. In the…

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Video Training Courses

A little while ago a friend of mine recommended www.udemy.com which is a training site with courses on anything you can think of. Not accredited, you don’t come away with a qualification, but if you are just looking to refresh or learn something new then this site is really good. Some of the prices can…

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Cinemas and stuff…

I recently got my Cineworld Unlimited card back, this is a monthly payment to the cinema in which I can watch as many films as I want, 10% off the food/drink and 25% off some restaurants. To assist with writing on this blog I am going to start doing some film reviews, this will get…

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Brexit – A small rant!

My recent trainer purchase has prompted this, I did have all of this as part of that post but then it just seemed like I had gone off on a total tangent, so I have separated it. I try not to get involved in the politics, it just doesn’t interest me, I find it hard…

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