What’s in a Name: Part 1
Please be advised there may be some who find the following insulting. Sorry! Any writer will have a problem with names. Let’s think about the mental gymnastics involved in naming characters first of all. I’ll visit naming places in a later blog. For me, when creating a character, often the name comes first. Rachel Makepeace in While I […]
A-wassailing we will go!
Hope your decorations are down? Twelfth Night has been and gone! I live in Herefordshire, surrounded by fruit orchards, especially apple orchards. For a while the apple was the symbol of the county and rightly so; the fruit is an important cash crop. I’ve mentioned before that it’s a traditional sort of place and one […]
When things go bump in the night …
So, did you enjoy the first episode of Phil Rickman’s Midwinter of the Spirit? I did, although I watched from behind the dog. Parts of the book scared me silly and the same parts of the TV adaptation did too! In episode one Huw, Merrily’s deliverance mentor played by the wonderful David Threlfall, […]
Torn Between Two Counties
On my Twitter bio it states: ‘Body in Herefordshire. Heart in Lyme Regis. Head all over the place.’ I’m a creature torn. On the one hand I feel passionately drawn to Lyme Regis and always have done. My family took me on holiday there every year from when I was very small. I cried when […]
Spring cleaning anyone?
The birds are singing, the days are lengthening. There is the merest hint of Spring in the air. I’m not one for housework. I apply the adage: only boring women have immaculate houses but even I was getting frustrated about the enormous pile of unread books in the bedroom. They were covering every surface and […]
Writing Process Blog Tour
My thanks to Elizabeth Hanbury for asking me to be part of this. Her work and her lovely blog can be found at: http://elizabethhanbury.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/my-writing-process.html If you’ve ever wondered how writers do things, this writing process blog tour may offer some answers! What am I working on? That’s a good question! Sometimes I really wish I […]
Ghosts, ghoulies and a Hamburg art gallery.
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ So said Hamlet, who had just cause to say so, as the ghost of his father had just appeared before him. Before Christmas, on a bitterly cold Sunday afternoon, I had the pleasure of listening to Barbara Erskine speak […]
Be thou hale in 2011!
I’m sorry I have neglected you all for so long. Christmas is always such a busy time, isn’t it? But may I wish you a very Happy New Year and a prosperous one too (despite the current economic climate). Here’s something to make us think of longer days and better weather and the scent of […]
