War-zone report from Bournemouth
I think I’m confusing feature-writing with reporting from a war-zone. The Friday before last, I had an hour before school pick-up. It’s a twenty minute journey from home to Central…
Tag: learning as I go along
Learning on the job: Follow-up
Agents and publishers are deluged with submissions from people like me who think they can write a novel. Out of hundreds, even thousands a year, they usually choose one or…
The week that was.
Last week felt like a washout, but it was just a lot of work for little immediate result. I was working on several pitches from scratch, and my ideas all…
Being nosy over coffee
I’m writing an article on the Bournemouth Marathon Festival, which involves a few interviews. My husband says I’m just drinking coffee for a living, but he’s forgetting the nosy questions…
Easter holidays
I do like my children- almost all the time. Every so often, I stop to wonder where I’m going wrong, but not half as much as I did a year…
More is more
As I said in 2016 goal- to write badly, one of my major aims this year is to write with an emphasis on quantity rather than quality. Inspired by…
Learning on the job
I’ve reached the end of the honeymoon stage with my short story. I need to remind myself why I’m writing it. It would be (very) nice to have something published,…
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