Lowering low standards and accidentally writing a ‘novelette’
I didn’t realise I had any standards to lower until this lockdown. Eighteen months after we adopted a perfectly trained dog, she is now following me to the toilet and…
Morning routines, existential crises and a good scientific phenomenon.
About a year ago, I read Amy Landino’s Good Morning, Good Life and started a morning routine. I try to get up an hour earlier before everybody else in the…
An ode to term-time and escaping literary gloom.
Oooh! I’ve changed my WordPress theme. I even like the draft page better. I always enjoy the sanity of a new term. We’re in full lockdown and home-schooling. You might…
Pandemonium and mailing lists
Happy New Year everybody. Hope 2021 brings good things. We’ve been in good going lockdown since New Year’s Eve. I did originally start this post by saying life had been…
The season of peace and goodwill and probably too much Georgette Heyer
For those hanging on with bated breath: the on-line Nativity was written, cast, filmed and released (privately on Youtube) on Christmas day to rave reviews. I collapsed after lunch on…
Advent 3: Rattling Out a Synopsis/ Wise men finally get to Bethlehem.
Hello. It might flatter you to know I jumped out of bed to write this post at 5am. No idea what I’m going to say, but I do enjoy saying…
Advent 2: Have I magically become good at fast drafting? Certainly I’m no better at multi-tasking.
You know that novel that was brewing? The plan was to outline it so I could get going with a first draft in the New Year. A week later, the…
Advent week 2: nativity perfection and plans for a new novel.
I’ve just had to negotiate to get my computer back from my children. The younger two are writing a nativity play to be performed remotely by cousins in several households…
