Category Archives: West Midlands

Oh, Olive!

Posted on April 26, 2021 by blogaboutwriting

Just dropping by – quickly – to say hello, as I am supposed to be working, as you may remember. Aagh, not panicking at all. The weather here’s gorgeous – I hope it is with you too – and on … Continue reading →

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‘Women’s Prize for Fiction’ Longlist – How Many Have You Read?

Posted on March 4, 2020 by blogaboutwriting

Random Word Competition … coming soon! Some of you (Keith!?) may be wondering, now that I’ve hit the 1000 mark (1000 ‘followers’, which always sounds like a cult), whether I’ll be running another of my ‘random word’ story competitions and … Continue reading →

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Water, Water, Everywhere…

Posted on February 18, 2020 by blogaboutwriting

A couple of weeks ago I went to an event run by the ‘Society of Authors’. It was a talk by author and Ayurvedic lifestyle consultant Ignaty Dyakov, entitled ‘Health for Authors: A Holistic Approach’ and it looked at strategies … Continue reading →

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Writing Competitions & Writing Workshops

Posted on January 28, 2020 by blogaboutwriting

Hellooo! Have you got snow? I have heard news that some places (‘North’) have snow and I am jealous! It’s been cold here today but sunny too. Absolutely not a single snowflake in sight. But, moving on… I have news … Continue reading →

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Setting Up a Book Club

Posted on January 21, 2020 by blogaboutwriting

This time last week the inaugural meeting of the ‘Evesham Festival of Words’ Book Club (ahem, set up by yours truly), was in full flow! Whee! I was a bit nervous beforehand, I must admit (mainly, in case no-one turned … Continue reading →

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Another On-Line Column from My Personal Website

Posted on November 13, 2019 by blogaboutwriting

NaNo A quick NaNoWriMo update: I am still on target but as we’re not even half way through November yet, there’s plenty of time for it all to go terribly wrong! Yesterday, I didn’t know what to write. Yes, I … Continue reading →

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Morning Pages v. 750 words … and lots of other stuff!

Posted on July 22, 2019 by blogaboutwriting

Do you remember, back in March, I told you about ‘750 words’? The plan was, I was going to try it for a month (because it’s free for a month!) and I think I promised to report back. Well, the … Continue reading →

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Three Things About Evesham Festival 2019

Posted on July 2, 2019 by blogaboutwriting

1. It was HOT! (Saturday was the hottest day of the year. 32 degrees!) 2. I met author Mike Gayle on the Friday night, when he was the guest author at our launch event and he also announced the winners … Continue reading →

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Spotted on Twitter in the Last Couple of Days

Posted on June 27, 2019 by blogaboutwriting

It may have passed you by but yesterday was National Writing Day (today is, apparently #National Sunglasses Day. Who knew?). I only found out about that – and, in fact, everything in this post, because I’ve been on Twitter for … Continue reading →

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This, too, will pass….

Posted on June 21, 2019 by blogaboutwriting

It’s all a bit ‘hectic-ly-hectic’ here, as a former colleague of mine used to say. If you follow me on Twitter you’ll see my recent tweets are along the lines of, ‘If I had a swear box, it would be … Continue reading →

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