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What a dazzling new talent this is! Shall I tell you something which will mortify my daughter in the future? Ok, I will and not just because it may alleviate some of the vengeful feelings I’ve been having towards her […]

Writers are like magpies. Our eye gets caught by something sparkly, we hop on over to take a closer look and if we like what we see then we grab it in our beak and take it home to our […]

This is about my Work In Progress not whips.This is not that sort of blog. So I’m steaming along on my new thang and feeling pretty good about my 25,000 words or so, and my generally-outlined next few chapters, but […]

Adverbs get a bad rap. It’s easy to over-use them. You can just stick one in after a verb and it explains exactly what you mean. No worries about showing motivation or developing character through careful use of actions and […]

I’ve heard that sometimes mothers take a little while to fall in love with their babies. This didn’t happen to me. It was pretty much instantaneous. They mewled and opened up their blurry eyes and I smelled their baby smell […]

I spend a lot of time thinking about what other people are thinking or feeling- they could be real people or characters I am making up. It’s a natural aspect of always wanting to put emotions into words. I’ll say […]

There’s a pleasing sort of symmetry in it. I take the same long walk every day (now pushing the Lucy Factor in an ancient and creaking jogging stroller which lists to the left, rather than carrying her. Better than hauling […]