Images are so powerful. I’ve written stories from photo prompts for years, and very often find just looking at an image can bring a complete story into existence. This story is no different. So I thought I’d share some of the images that are currently inspiring me. I find buildings especially fire my imagination. Is […]
Summer of Fiction Writing Week 2 Progress
19 June It’s going well, and I’m on target – in fact I’m a bit over target which is a good thing. My plan was to write 500 words per day or 2,500 each week. By the end of August I should have at least 32,500 words towards the rough estimate of 50K that this […]
Writing Challenge – Week 1 Progress Report
7th June Got off to an early start with fiction writing this morning. That’s really nice change and something I might try and make more of a habit of rather than plunging straight into business writing. Anyway, I dropped into a conversation between Ozzie and Kathy, who had both done things the other disapproved of. […]
Writing into the Story
6th June After a lot of notecarding and pondering, I’ve figured out a little more of the story and found what I think is the beginning. This is likely to change as the story progresses, so nothing is cast in stone. I’m retraining myself on that concept. My heart knows stories are not necessarily written […]
New Words
622 new words. Writing fiction again is odd, I’ve focused for so long on nonfiction. But it’s good, gives my creative brain a different kind of work out, and my muse is slowly peeking round the corner again and venturing a few, experimental ideas. Bum in Seat I’m having to relearn how to break resistance […]