Strength in Depth
Over the years I’ve read a number of articles critiquing the concept of ‘the strong female’ character. As a feminist, and indeed human...
Headspace - the final frontier
I've been thinking about creativity recently – alas, not very creatively. I'm interested in the 'where' and the 'when' of creativity...
Hanging on - first published in authors electric
So, this blog was going to be the sad end of year reflection on a year of Covid, of the last year in which all of Europe was still ours...
On Repeat
I am really bored of the sound of my own voice. Not just my writing voice, which I’ve barely exercised recently, more my actual physical ...
Covid 19: Poetic License
It will come as no surprise to anyone that I have done very little work in these extraordinarySpring days. Instead, I have walked through...
Notes from a Reformed Perfectionist.
Once upon a time I was a perfectionist. This will come as a surprise to anyone who has known me over the last thirty years. I am untidy,...
WTF WFH
I suppose I should write something funny about working in isolation. To be honest I have been ill for most of it so far – not...
Getting out of my own way
As a chronically clumsy person, it is usual for me to trip over my own feet, struggle to put my head through the arm hole of my sweater,...
In search of an ending
I’ve just been editing my novel ‘Badwater’ which I hope will be out next year with the small independent publisher, 'Kristell Ink.'I...
On writing of difficult things
Sometimes I wonder why I bother. No, really. What with Climate Change and Brexit and so much depressing news, sitting at home writing...