Tag Archives: writing
Cocky Delusions of Creative Grandeur
Beautiful bird, is it not? The Cockerel? The diminutive, Cock and Cocky have been used for year – YEARS – as nicknames, slang, euphemisms… a versatile and well-used word. We’ve all heard it, read it and/or used it. It is … Continue reading
OMG I discovered a new author!
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest – Henry David Thoreau I live in the UK. A beautiful, green, open and varied country with people of many nationalities, ideas and opinions. Nothing here is mundane – not the weather, … Continue reading
Tripe, anyone?
The best books in the world are heavily edited because, let’s face it, we tend to regurgitate a lot of rubbish. We can’t all be R K Narayan and submit an almost immaculate work. Even garnished with a slice of lemon and … Continue reading
My Writing Corner
A fan (you know who you are) asked me why, in all my publicity photos, there is only a picture of my writing chair and why the bookshelf next to it is full of cookery books. First – seriously? You zoomed … Continue reading
Cats And Dogs
My short stories have transferred from Smashwords to the ibookstore and translated the ‘teen fiction’ category to ‘children’s stories’. When I look at the downloads I find that in the ‘customers also bought’ section are books for young children. Of course, … Continue reading
A King of Fools
For a while now I have been toying with doing a course in creative writing at Oxford and I have been looking into the MSt. Now, it isn’t that I think I need it, nor is it that I think … Continue reading
…speaking Japanese, I think I’m speaking Japanese…
I really think so, because my publisher and I just can’t get the cover design right. I want something edgy, graffiti-ish and grungy and he keeps submitting cover designs with clean-cut, sharp fonts that speak of squeaky clean kitchens on … Continue reading
Falling Into The Wave
I read once that it is easier to write about the horrible side of life than happiness. I’ve been looking through my dictionary (yes, I am one of those!) and so far I have found there to be more words to … Continue reading
The Elephant In The Garden
You know that weird expression about big commonly-known secrets that no-one talks about, the proverbial ‘elephant in the room’ at dinner parties? Well, I have an elephant in my garden, on the terrace to be exact. It is a baby elephant … Continue reading
The Writing Seesaw
There are days when the pen flies across page after page, my fingers numb from trying to keep up with the thoughts welling like a newly burst spring. Then there are the other days when it doesn’t matter how I … Continue reading
Banished by Bea Turvey
Scribbled thoughts of a mad woman 