Thoughts and quotes on the moon — “I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos” Tom Hanks Some reflections on the moon that I have collated for you, interspersed with some of my own and accompanied by sketches and photographs. One dark night The bluest moon …

‘Heal thyself’ — Most people know the maxim, ‘heal thyself’. But have you ever considered how you might begin this journey as a writer, or even as a creative writer? Have you ever considered the power of the written word to heal? Writing is a process which often involves introspection, the ability to…

Author – writer – children’s fiction – crossover – editor — Dear readers, after almost four decades of writing, and working to find an agent, attending workshops and writers’ conferences, writing every day while raising a family (after a successful career in retail management prior to becoming a stay-at-home mum to raise my children), I joined Medium in 2021. It took…

The reason may surprise you — I often read things twice; books, emails, blogs, my own writing. Why is that? Well, I used to be a perfectionist, but no, it isn’t to search for errors. Have you ever noticed that you may be in a particular mood when you write something? …

Mimicry in Art — “A painting has always had an excellent chance to be viewed by one person or a few” Walter Benjamin [1] There is a tension in art between the seen and the not seen. You may have a painting which has been turned into a limited edition print. For the uninitiated…

A Collation of stories on Medium — Hello, dear readers. I wasn’t intending to write another collation so soon, but I’ve been thinking about housing and homelessness. I pass a homeless person in the street where I live, often. I bought her a Christmas present last Christmas. Then I spent my time wondering what she would do…

New Novella — Dear readers, I have been away for a while from this Novella Flash blog, as I have been working on getting my latest complete novella ready for publication. I just started publishing my latest complete work of fiction over at ‘The Lark’. Do check it out. Here’s the link to…

A weekly serial rom-com/horror/experimental fiction set in the future — Gem lives with a replica of her late mother — The Motherboard — and navigates her newfound status as a single mother in a post-pandemic world — “Ya OK?” God only knew why the Motherboard had that weird dialect. Sometimes it irritated me. “Uh. Oh yes. I’m a little drowsy. Pear woke me twice in the night. Is she OK?” “That’s why I called. Do you remember Covid-30?”

The art of losing: a prompt — The art of losing what we thought we had But look closer that’s a fool’s type of gold You know it’s true, and maybe you’ll be glad Sometimes it seems “to have and hold” ’s too bold A thing to be assigned to a mere ring The future’s far away…