L A U N C H D A Y! Today is the day! Murmuration is live! Whoop! You can find it at Amazon (paperback and ebook) and you can preorder from my Etsy shop if you want a special edition with edge printing! Thanks so much to everyone who has read an advance copy (andContinueContinue reading “M U R M U R A T I O N”
Category Archives: writing life
Writer as Maker
On making things and putting them into the world If a tree falls and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If a person writes a book and no one reads it, does it exist? For most creatives, you are free to make what you like and then what you have made exists. ContinueContinue reading “Writer as Maker”
Murmuration coming May 24!
Hello! I can’t wait to tell you about Murmuration, the book I have been dreaming up since May 2019. I am pleased to say that it will be published on Friday 24th May this year! Read on to find out how you can get involved. Let me tell you a little more about my novel: Murmuration is aContinueContinue reading “Murmuration coming May 24!”
February News
Does anyone else feel like they have begun the new year in a fog? I didn’t know if it was the threat of the new and unknown variant of Covid, the chill of winter, or the ongoing longing for my writing to get out there into the world, but I have just felt a bitContinueContinue reading “February News”
One thing at a time.. July / August Update
I feel like this summer is running away with me. The children are talking all the time, all at once and it feels like there isn’t the time to think. We aren’t doing very much as the ‘pingdemic’ is terrifying me and we are counting down the days until we have a week away. Meanwhile,ContinueContinue reading “One thing at a time.. July / August Update”
May News
So, now that May has just been ticked off the calendar, I thought I’d do some May news! (Always late…) I kind of feel like May didn’t really happen this year because it was so stormy, rainy and cold, and normally May is my absolute favourite month of the year. I was waiting all monthContinueContinue reading “May News”
Writing Room
A Room of One’s Own.. all you need to start the creative life. A space of your own and time..
Michael Morpurgo’s Writing Advice
– Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. – Always write about something or somebody you know about – something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it. – The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep yourContinueContinue reading “Michael Morpurgo’s Writing Advice”
thought
I sit before a dark window frame, The sickly thought of black leaves rustling out there turns my stomach. The quietness rings in my ears and the glare of the screen wearies my eyes. I am thinking tonight of this treasure that I’ve found, the origin of flightlessness. What does it mean for me?
#1
Wind wraps around me like a blanket. In a blustery playground my boy has fallen asleep. And there is space and time, of a sort, standing hands in pockets, brook rushing by behind me, I hear it’s eddies and ripples, see the winter light brimming, spilling over, winding through the trees. All alone like IContinueContinue reading “#1”
Circles
It is summer that makes me want to write, I swear each year it is the same. This time, this light, the long evenings, my hands becoming soft again, my skin fixing itself again. The older I grow, the more I see this life in circles. I swear it’s the same each year.
#38
Sometimes we don’t even have time to say a word to each other, Don’t look at each other before we must attend to this or that, The fight or the nappy change or the insulin. And then after they sleep we each have our uphill journey to continue with. Music, writing, these dreams, we pullContinueContinue reading “#38”
#2
Jacob is going home today. And meanwhile, I am alone in this big old house, tiptoeing around the sleeping beast of my writing, picking at its edges, seeing if I still know it, still feel it. there are no babies, no cries or moans to distract me, just my cold toes on the wooden floor, ContinueContinue reading “#2”
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