“Boss wants to see you.” Geraldino paused in his task of cleaning the hallway skirting boards and looked up at the messenger boy. “Are you taking over here?” “If you need me to.” “Good.” He stood, straightened his clothing, and handed the cleaning rag to the boy before striding down …
Eric Grantham looked up from his work at the opening of the study door. “Pardon the interruption, sir,” his senior footman said, “there is a carriage approaching the house. Were you expecting any visitors?” Eric closed his books with the speed of a schoolboy at the end of term. “Likely …
So, it’s been a while… Been a few changes in my life, etc., but mostly I’ve not been posting here because I’ve felt rather ‘stuck’ in terms of my writing the last couple of years. In summary though: Dayjob is now full time again (late 2014 – April 2020 I …
This is a very quick post because I should be asleep right now – have to get up for work in less than 6 hours – so I’ll come back & tidy this up later, but herewith a very short story inspired by this tweet I saw today via Elin …
Last year turned out to be not at all the year I thought it would be. Lots of decisions & changes, and often when it came to those decisions I ultimately took the opposite path from what I would have predicted a few months earlier… ‘Year of the House’ at …
Way back in 2016 I wrote a short story, Man of War, for Manifold Press‘s Jane Austen inspired anthology A Certain Persuasion. When this anthology was launched at Queer Company 2, all contributing authors were invited to write a short article, related to the story we had written, for the conference …
We did a ‘Story Cards’ creative writing exercise at Write Club last Thursday. This involves writing a short piece of fiction (or the start of a longer piece) inspired by an illustrated card drawn from a set (of about 40 or 50). It’s traditional in our group to share what …
This is not the blog post I was going to write. I was going to write about how my outlook has changed over the past year – politics, changes in the genre I tend to hang round in, understanding more about my own writing, and working my way through a …
It’s November 30th, aka the day of reckoning in the world of NaNoWriMo. I’ve not “won”. I did write a total of just over 25k words, which was my minimum target, and I almost achieved my bigger target of writing every day (total of 3 days over the month with …
Every so often when I’m writing I come across something which, when I look at it again, I realise “Oh! I wouldn’t have thought that a few years ago!” It’s not just age/maturity/extra life experience which causes these moments for me, it’s also where I live, how we live, and …
