Don’t let the sun set on your medium journey before you discover these facts — Fact 1. If you click claps you can see who clapped for you. 2. You can clap more than once; in fact up to 50 times. 3. You shouldn’t just write and leave, it isn’t polite. Read the comments and respond. 4. You can play the story and listen to…

For anyone interested in Education and Creativity: Some inspiration towards healing your underground art — “I don’t mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative” [1] Sir Ken Robinson, ‘Do Schools Kill Creativity?’ Ted Talk, 2006 I wonder whether the above sentence, which I lifted from the Ted Talk I draw attention to later in this story, is meant 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? …

Just words going round and round: freestyle — This grass whispers, that flower sings This soft table That wobbly door This shaky ceiling That watery floor This rubbery tree That silent frog This grass whispers That flower sings This bank blisters That concrete rings This gate shudders That brook belts This clock beats That car skips This chair melts That carpet climbs This shop…

How to — So you’ve written your story and it is ready to send to the publisher. Now what? 1. Click next; add the tags, or topics; scroll down to see those; add appropriate tags, such as ‘Mental Health’, ‘Life’, ‘Spirituality’, etc., now underneath topics on your phone, it says ‘publication’ 2. Select…

A Collation — There is no possibility of a walk or gardening this morning because it is raining, but I did water the Lobelia, which loves the shelter of the porch. You can’t read everyone at once and that is why I welcome the rain. The rain gives us pause. It’s a moment…

A reflection and prose poem in response to September’s third week prompt in ‘Lifeline' — Simple moments in life may seem ordinary, but they hold a unique beauty and…great importance Says Sahil Patel in a recent prompt. I just so happen to have recently enjoyed such a moment. Here is the story. I made a mistake, and could not fix it until the jar of…

Serial Fiction/ Rom Com/Horror/Experimental Fiction/Metafiction — Gem lives with a replica of her late mother, The Motherboard, and navigates her newfound status as a single mother — but this is a world of robots and ghosts — 74. 🌟 I am standing in a warm room, starkers; next to a blazing fire. Right in front of me is another woman. My catch phrase used to be “There is always another woman.” I seem to have created her.