writing

Thinking from Melinda-solo 23 days old

Hey ho, what to say? Here we go again. Thinking, thinking, thinking, never coming to any conclusions, never resolving anything, never getting anywhere ...

Chipping away from Melinda-solo 26 days old

On Saturday, I emailed the other six contributors to the book and reminded them that the deadline is this Friday for me to get the papers, so I can send ...

Wasting time from Melinda-solo 27 days old

The interval between the alarm and the repeat – and the next one… and the next… and the next… slips away too easily. Soon, half an hour has gone, and ...

The Way Things Are from Melinda-solo 28 days old

Late again this morning – but at least I’ve got an extra hour, so I might stand a chance of getting to my desk by ten. It went quite well yesterday, ...

Friday afternoon, working weekend from Melinda-solo 29 days old

I’m tempted not to blog anything today as I’m so late up and I have this writing to do. I set the alarm but I was awake from four and only got back into ...

Borderland from Melinda-solo 32 days old

I went to a lecture last night at the Open University in Milton Keynes, by Philip Pullman, the writer. He was ostensibly talking about book illustration, ...

Online banking from Melinda-solo 34 days old

What has happened to the weather? All that lovely sunshine seems to have vanished overnight, yesterday was grey and overcast and cold, not actually raining ...

Book chapter from Melinda-solo 41 days old

[ ... ] I had writing group in the afternoon, I didn’t feel I could skip it because I was supposed to be taking some postcards in for an exercise, ...

Should I? from Melinda-solo 50 days old

A clear sky, golden light reflecting from the undersides of small drifting white clouds, pigeons and seagulls. Maybe I should go out there into the chill, ...

Writers' group from Melinda-solo 69 days old

[ ... ] the creative writing classes I was talking about that I used to go to, but a self help group. There are eight sets of writing classes, spread over ...