Elenda, the princess is looking at me now. I give you her name as she demands it. She is looking at me directly, accusatory. I am not...

I am lost now. I really have changed people and places so much from what they were that I dont know where I am or where I am going. The...

Its a Bank Holiday Monday and I am not working. Public holidays always give me a sense of freedom that booked holidays or weekends do...

Its a much repeated idea that you can only write about what you know. And some will say that you should only write about what you know,...

When I started this blog it was to enable me to order my thoughts and develop my novel into some with an element of maturity that I had...

I already lost. I feel like I have been walking around and around the same issues and the same points without getting anywhere. And now I...

Maybe this isn't the book that I am meant to write. Maybe the reason that it is so hard to finish is that I dont want to write it. Maybe...

I am through making excuses and offering explanations. The simple truth is that I do have time to write and it is not because I dont have...

I always thought that it was a nonsense that writers should and could only write about what they know. I think I have mentioned this...

I have this large leaver arch folder into which I organised all my writing years ago when I first had the idea to get this finished. And...

I haven't been very disciplined in my writing since the beginning. Only when I was young and ha the time to sit at a desk with no worries...

Photo by Sven Brandsma on Unsplash ..on that BIG BLACK NIGHT? Did you take the coast road back through your life? I have been away and...

I have been typing away this story, that I apparently know so well, for some weeks now. The good news is that I have got her to the city...

There is no magic left in the world. No faith or innocence. No-one wants to turn their face to the sun anymore; they prefer to look to...

Death has a smell. I don't mean the smell of death itself; everyone smells when their bowels involuntarily empty. I mean the act of...

I shall misquote the Dragonlance saga here. I remember the tone of the words and the point of them even if I do not remember their exact...

I only had one perspective when I started on this journey. But a child sees in black and white. The basic needs of a child are similar to...

Photo by Sacha T'Sas on Unsplash I am nowhere. No further along and no closer to the end or further from the beginning. But these days I...

I am failing in my intention. I wanted to get some discipline and to write a bit every day. But I am still neglecting my characters and I...

I started writing yesterday putting words into character's mouths that suddenly did not fit. It wasn't that those words shouldn't be...