The Duke and my opinions on Bridgerton.
Picture Credit: USA Today I write this sitting in bed to work. (We call it “doing a Churchill.) I’m not usually given to such self-indulgence, but I had a bad…
Category: Inspiration
Signing in the Waldenbooks.
Too tired to write more than a sentence, but this made me laugh and I hope you enjoy it too:
Guessing the murderer and timeline overwhelm.
Give me a few episodes of a crime drama and I have a ninety, ninety-five percent chance of guessing the perpetrator from then on. Unfortunately, this has nothing to do…
Procrastination tip for writers #1: Platform building.
I usually limber up to write with a game of Freecell. Today, this turned into several. It inspired a Facebook post. I moved to Twitter and sent five tweets in…
Theory: Uncle Quentin in the ‘Famous Five’ was Enid Blyton herself.
For those who haven’t heard of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, it’s what Britain had before Harry Potter. Anyway, I have my own pet theory about Uncle Quentin. I think he’s…
Netflix-informed parenting, Prince Philip and my first draft.
I’m writing this a bit late. My husband and I stayed up to collect my son from a cold-sounding meet in his mate’s garden. He wanted to cycle back at…
Too many bikes, too few words.
Yesterday, the six of us cycled along the prom. The sun was out, people were in t-shirts and there were banners outside the restaurants announcing their terraces would open from…
A turnaround week
I started this week feeling uninspired – one of my least favourite sensations – and have finished with so much in my head I don’t know what to put in…
