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A short while ago I completed a writing course which was titled Writing the Image. We tried different exercises where we chose spaces, characters and objects and needed to use senses to ground our writing. One of the exercises was to choose an indoor space and write about the weather. We were given a short […]

The month has started off quite hectic. I have sent my novel off for proofreading. It is due back on the 15th. That should give me enough time to have it formatted and ready for upload by the scheduled date. I have been trying to join as many promos as I can. So far I

Here is the story I entered into the NYC Midnight Microfiction Challenge – Bacon is Life. The prompts were horror, eating breakfast and existed. They instruct us not to write the most obvious story. To me the most obvious story would be sitting down to breakfast, enjoying the food, before finding out you were eating

I waited to receive feedback from all pf my beta readers before I started my next round of editing. I appreciated the feedback I received; it was valuable. The editing took longer than expected but the quality of my next draft was improved immensely. I then wrote a blurb. I think blurb writing is difficult

Thank you for joining me on my website. I have been busy with many tasks over the past few months. Many people may think that self publishing is as easy as writing a book and hitting the publish button. It is not. After writing the book I went through the self edit phase. I do