I have tried to create drop down menus for each of the following categories: Novels, Poetry and Short Stories, with the various pieces of writing listed below. But I think I’m doing it in the wrong place! I tried menus, but it looks different every time I do it and now the only thing that’s […]
Month: August 2015
Tidying up my web
Thanks to Brey and her brilliant Q & A session on blogging, I am ready to organise my website. It will most certainly become even more disorganised until I get it right! Before I start, here is a poem: Cyber Spider I struggled out of my comfort zone That comfy chair Behind the messy desk And […]
More haikus
I had forgotten writing and tweeting a haiku a day for two weeks. They have been added to the page ‘Haikus – recent poems’.
A Soul Released in Coltishall is complete
I have updated the page ‘A Soul Released in Coltishall’ with the final version, which I shall be sending off to the competition today. Update: It’s gone!
The end of a perfect day
After a quiet but perfect day, my husband took me out for a birthday meal at a lovely restaurant in a small Norfolk village not too far from where we live. I mentioned it in a previous post, entitled ‘This morning looks brighter’. As we left, we were surprised by a glorious Norfolk sunset, which inspired […]
Finding a synonym for diminish
Diminish To reduce a person or thing in standing or perceived worth To cause something to be or appear less To become gradually less To dwindle Lessen Dim I am having trouble with this word, as it doesn’t work in the phrase ‘watched his rangy figure diminish until he disappeared into the pub’. What I want […]
A Soul Released in Coltishall – new short story
A Soul Released in Coltishall – new short story.
Short story update
The new short story has been updated and I have now decided that I quite like the title. It is still a draft and I plan to work on it some more later on in the week.
Calling fellow wordsmiths
Having published a page with a new short story that is only half finished, I hoped that I might receive some feedback on it. I’m not completely happy with the title ‘A Soul Released in Coltishall’ but I do know the direction I want the story to take. My husband read it yesterday and commented […]
Thinking about my mum
Reply to Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy, eat your words – your mum posed like Marilyn, but mine looked like her. While your mother posed in a Marilyn stance, mine had the blonde hair and knew how to dance. I inherited Mum’s nature and the blue of her eyes, but all I got from […]
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