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A couple of days in Cornwall
We’ve been fantastically lucky with the weather this week. On Saturday we booked a last-minute deal at the Royal Duchy Hotel in Falmouth for dinner, bed and breakfast for 3 nights and we’ll be heading...
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Top Deck sends the stats for my blog bonkers
Photo taken by Philip Wadds I was checking the other day who’d been visiting my blog and wondered why there’d been 22 hits from Facebook. I’m not keen on FB so there isn’t usually much activity. It was...
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Introducing Alison Morton and her debut novel Inceptio
I have great pleasure in welcoming Alison Morton to my blog. We met during a writers’ retreat in Portugal last year and I was hugely impressed by the quality of Alison’s writing and her commitment to...
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Competition news
I thought I’d done really well since January, with two stories in ‘best of 2012′ publications and one story shortlisted in a December competition. On reflection, I realised that these don’t really...
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Flash fiction workshops in Dorset
Dorset Writers’ Network, Winfrith Newburgh Village Hall I was delighted to offer two flash fiction workshops locally on Saturday. The first was delivered at a fantastic event in celebration of Dorset...
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Spring in Dorset
Spring in Dorset has so far meant biting wind, patches of frost and snow. When the sun does appear, it’s absolutely glorious but all too soon it slinks behind the clouds. In spite of the weather, other...
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Story Slam in Upton
You may remember back in the summer I was delighted to be a judge at the first story slam in Dorset held at the Shaftesbury Arts Centre by Storyslingers. You can read about it here. I’ve now been asked...
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The news is confirmed…
The news. So what is the news? Well. I can hardly bring myself to write it down. But now it’s all confirmed, I’d better get used to the idea. I’m going to be made redundant from my post as an advisory...
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Greetings from Vietnam
Thank you to everyone who sent messages of support owing to my forthcoming redundancy. It really cheered me up to know so many people are behind me. I have completed a couple of job applications and I...
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Writing stutter
My efforts to write have been negligible over the last few weeks. Although I took my notebook to Vietnam, I only managed to start one piece of flash fiction. Since I’ve been back, ideas have whirred...
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Some good news…
This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for, a piece of good news. There’s nothing like a little publishing success to get me refocused and positive. An article on the workshop I delivered at the...
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NEW Dorset Flash Fiction Competition
The Dorset Writers’ Network is running a flash fiction competition to raise funds to support the valuable work they offer in helping isolated writers throughout the county. The first three winners will...
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When I was brave and optimistic
When I was feeling brave and optimistic about 2013, I wrote about the competitions I had entered/was planning to enter in my post competition news. With more than a quarter of the year already behind...
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What makes you happy?
When my daughter was back from university, she was imagining what her future would look like and it included a big house and a flash car. My husband told her that those things won’t make her happy. He...
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Things are looking brighter…
I received an email this week confirming that I’ve been accepted onto the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. This is a part-time, distance learning, research degree which...
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Introducing Carol McGrath and The Handfasted Wife
Please find below an interview with the talented debut novelist Carol McGrath, author of The Handfasted Wife. The story, although based on research, is an imagined account of the life of Edith...
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How information exchange has changed the nature of gap year travels
Snot in France, 1981Photo by Philip Wadds I was contacted this week by a journalist writing an article about the developments in information exchange that have changed the nature of gap year travels....
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Introducing Alison Morton and her debut novel Inceptio
I have great pleasure in welcoming Alison Morton to my blog. We met during a writers’ retreat in Portugal last year and I was hugely impressed by the quality of Alison’s writing and her commitment to...
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Flash fiction workshops in Dorset
Dorset Writers’ Network, Winfrith Newburgh Village Hall I was delighted to offer two flash fiction workshops locally on Saturday. The first was delivered at a fantastic event in celebration of Dorset...
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Spring in Dorset
Spring in Dorset has so far meant biting wind, patches of frost and snow. When the sun does appear, it’s absolutely glorious but all too soon it slinks behind the clouds. In spite of the weather, other...
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