By my normal writing calendar, June is the wrong time of the year for this. September, October, shortening days, interest in being indoors more -Â that’s the time for writing. Except that’s not how it’s been of late. Mainly because of the lack of words. Not speaking words, you understand. Speaking words we do a lot. …
Category archives: Challenge
Weekly snapshot: 14 Jan
I’d like to find the right words to describe the sky today. Cold, bright, slightly ruffled clouds. The kind of winter day that lifts you up; the kind that also has you doing the morning footwear calculation for the kids. Shoes or boots? Boots (wellies) won out, which was just as well: there were some …
I can’t hear myself write
Once upon a time, there were three posts a week. And for a time before that, there was one a day. In the early days of the blog, heady with capturing the experiences of the year, there were several posts a day. (I was trying to offer an alternative to the Christmas roundrobin, putting stories …
Little, and not all that often
October has seen me decide to reboot the blog before. This time round, it’s probably looking like the reverse. That’s OK. Blogs come and go, but they can also restart; have a hiatus while the writer is doing something else important, and many more variants. I’m not doing daily writing discipline, this time round. Nor …
Specialist subjects
Do you ever remember thinking about the things you would share with your kids, when they came along? All those things you love. All those things that you know something about. All those things that you think might even be helpful to them when they grow up. Well. Some of that happens. Occasionally they even …