There I was happily plodding along with NaNoWriMo and the second Dawn novel getting the words done, moving forward with the story when boom! The way to write my Stepmother Murder story came to me. I have been mulling over the idea of a thriller about murdering a stepmother for…

Today, I want to talk about this blog and why I write here. Why I published most of my memoir here and what I jolly well am not here for.
Let me be really clear. Medium for me is a place to publish my writing and to read other peoples writing…

NaNoWriMo has begun. For those of you who don’t know, it is National Novel Writing Month, but really it should be called International Novel Writing Month because it has spread. I guess rebranding is tricky, just ask Mr Zuckerberg. And InNoWriMo doesn’t sound right.
But what is it, you ask?
Well, it…

What a difference a week makes, well, two weeks, to be specific.
Yes, I took two weeks of my annual leave to do nothing but hang out in my study and write. A Writers Retreat without the romantic cottage and picturesque views. A Writers Retreat where I was still cooking…

All I want to do is write, to be a writer. I love writing and I am happiest when I write. Today I have given myself a word count and a target and I have nothing to do today but write.

I just found myself cleaning the thing that stops…

It is already day three of my holiday/writers retreat, located in my ever so glamorous front room. I spent the first two days doing another edit of Dawn and the Duke. And now, today, I should be starting my next novel. Yet again, I am paralysed by indecision and doubt…

I have just started the two weeks of leave that I took purely to write. I figured if I could have two weeks just to write I can get some momentum going again and be able to keep that momentum going once I go back to work.

I started this…

Okay, I know what you are thinking, “you were dating a man with kids; what did you think would happen?” Well, to be brutally honest, not this.
For starters, I have never had a relationship last longer than three years. That was my first marriage, so to be fair, most of…