Another writing prompt for today. What if…starts me into a nonsensical spiral. What if the worlds of Dr Seuss are real? What if the first of Octember will really come? And what if any of the wonderful dreams of children’s books can come true? I think this is where I go when I hear what …
Category archives: Moments
2 Oct: Today
Here’s the prompt for the extra writing group I mentioned. 5 minutes on ‘today’: Today is the middle of the week. Wednesday is often a good mood day for me – made it this far in the week. Today was grey all day, however. ALL day. With that looming, hovering greyness that promises rain but …
I am not safe in second-hand bookshops
I’m sure it comes as no surprise. I just realised it again today when I went to my favourite local second-hand book shop. Books donated: 2. Books bought: 8. Hmm. While I can tell myself that three of them were for a friend who is looking for children’s books about Scottish history (score! had seen …
Replying, not writing
Hello. I thought I’d make sure it didn’t drift to a month since last writing. School summer holidays can do that to you, you know. Because I have been writing – but other stuff. The ecourse turned out to be brilliant – lots of food for thought, and some writing tasks within that. There’s been …
Writing in the wee sma’s
Rather too much of my writing is happening after midnight at the moment. But as I’m not getting a lot of time to write in general, better now than not. Equally, better something productive and hopefully sleep inducing. I’m not planning to write put myself to sleep – or you, gentle reader, for that matter …