The Adventures of a Blonde Writer
This feel-good book, The Corner Shop In Cockleberry Bay, got me through a weekend away with three hormonal teenage girls and one ten year old girl (two were mine and the other two were my sister’s kids). Good books get you through stressful times. On a night, in our small budget hotel room, when the […]
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Welcome to my writing diary, a weekly blog post where I record the emotional highs and lows from my creative life. Important News I have set my book launch date for Sunday 30 June 2019. My romantic comedy, ‘Instructions For Falling In Love Again’ is coming! Looking forward to introducing you to Pippa, Dan and […]
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Welcome to my writing life diary. This week I want to talk about falling off your writing bike. All sorts of writing related issues can send you flying over your writing bike’s handlebars; crisis of confidence, rejection, not having any success in a writing competition, negative feedback etc. I am always coming off my writing […]
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Welcome to my weekly diary which records the emotional highs and lows from my writing life. I have not been well this week. For noting, readers – never make fun of your beloved when they have a bad cold. Don’t joke about man flu. I did this with my other half and I ended up […]
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Welcome to my weekly writing diary. This week I have been thinking a lot about old mixtapes. I am blaming a conversation I overheard in a coffee shop for this latest creative distraction. A woman was telling her friend she had thrown out her LARGE collection of mixtapes. As a child of the 80s and […]
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She’s back! Roxy Collins and her diary entries have returned for a third series. Before I kick off with Roxy’s latest diary entry, here’s a quick Q&A for new readers and a much-needed refresh for Roxy fans.
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After what happened to me last week I feel the need to talk about the dangers of the post writing daze and offer some advice to others on how to handle this fragile creative state. I have also been wondering how many accidents, slip ups, calamities, disasters, boo boos, costly mistakes, wrong turns, poor decisions and […]
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Even though I got married many moons ago I still find myself gazing longingly at engagement rocks in jewellers, getting urges to try on beautiful wedding dresses, drawing up family seating plans with post it notes (when I should be plotting my novel), restraining myself from throwing a bunch of flowers at a crowd of […]
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Have you ever experienced writing a story that gives you more than just an interesting tale and a collection of fictional people? Let me explain. Last week, in my blog post titled, The Story Which Wants To Show You Other Things, I spoke about how, whilst working on a draft of a story, I had […]
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Writing a break up can be just as tricky as creating a romantic union between two characters. In certain scenarios it can play havoc with your writer emotions and you may find yourself reaching for the tissues, raiding the chocolate cupboard and compiling a sad songs playlist. Back in the day, before I found my […]
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