I got off the train from London last night and discovered that it had been raining again – it had been dry in London! I spent Friday night with my daughter. We had a delicious Moroccan meal with one of my oldest friends; we’ve known each other since we were eleven years old and it was wonderful […]
Tag: Haunted Tide
The title of the novel I am currently writing.
Poetrycrastinating
Apparently I have now written over 100 blog posts, which would be great if all the poetry writing wasn’t distracting me from The Haunted Tide. I’ve been writing poetry and short stories far longer than I have been trying to write novels; Joe and Nelly was in the pipeline for more than five years, but that […]
The Haunted Tide is progressing
Chapter 9 of The Haunted Tide is coming along nicely. Since yesterday I have written over a thousand words. I have also produced the following ‘found’ poem about a great storm on the North Norfolk Coast. A Village Vanishes Agitated by the violence of the wind, The sea burst, Occupying farms and fields At first, Then towns […]
And now back to work
Today I must get back to my novel, The Haunted Tide. My main character, fourteen-year-old Lily, is tormented by voices that seem to come from the sea; she has just embarked on her first relationship with a boy she really likes; and a new girl has started at school, a bully who is targeting Lily. While […]
Back to the novel and a poorly cat
I took a week off writing The Haunted Tide to spend some time with my lovely husband, who had taken time off work to spend the week of my birthday with me. I made the decision to write only in the early hours when I can’t sleep and he can, so as not to disturb him. That […]
Looking forward to Chatterbooks
Saturday morning… I’m looking forward to meeting up with some ex-pupils and some new members at the monthly Chatterbooks session at the local library. It’s a very chatty little group; they enjoy reading and talking about books. This month the theme is spies and thrillers. I’ve planned a few activities and, thanks to our Community Librarian, […]
Owl Music
Well, Friday has come around quickly this week and I only managed to complete one chapter. Yes, the first draft of Chapter 8 is complete; it ended with Lily feeling betrayed by Danny and sick from the bullying at school that is only getting started. Chapter 9 is pretty much planned. I have also found […]
Rejection Haiku
A shadow stamped on The spark of my creative Soul – it did not die. Yesterday was one of those Mondays that start well and then slide away from you. The early morning alphabet acrostic poem gave me a feeling of accomplishment. Later in the morning I went to the local library, where I am a […]
Flexing my creative muscles
Inspired by yesterday’s post from businessinrhyme, I wrote the following poem, where each starting letter of a line is a consecutive letter of the alphabet, from A to Z, a form of acrostic. It was a good exercise for flexing my creative muscles before writing the first draft of Chapter 8 of The Haunted Tide. […]
Development of the mini golf scene
I have just finished writing some more of the mini golf scene and it now looks like this: ‘We didn’t let the thought of Rosie spoil our fun. Mr Grant let us out and drove off on shop business, promising he’d be back in a couple of hours. He said he would park up and […]
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