It’s September…. back to school season in the UK, and time to look over July and August. In case you missed them, here are the bimonthly links for 2024 so far! Jan+Feb | Mar+Apr | May+Jun The UK Summer was, as is …
How 2023 Shaped The Essence of 2024
2023, I bid you farewell. This was a year of massive change. I began 2023 living in a friend’s spare room as her lodger, and ended it in my own flat with 2 pet house rabbits. Writing was almost non-existent, …
Welcoming In The Essence of 2023
It’s 2023. I always reach this point and want to laugh at how I thought I was on my way “up” after a few hard years of falling down, but this year I can say I did at least climb …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – Apr – Sep 2021
“The summer air is hot and still, the afternoon hazy; crickets call relentlessly from among the brown grasses, and ears of corn are the same heavy, burnished gold as the late-day sun. Hawks circle in the blue-white sky overhead, and …
What’s in Your Writing Survival Kit? My Top 10 Writing Tools
Back in September 2013, I wrote this post about my “top 10 writing tools” and I recently went to link to it in answer to a question about things to go in a NaNoWriMo survival kit…. and realised how things …
LEVEL-UP! The Essence of Green – Feb + Mar 2021
“Anyone can love a thing ‘because’. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something ‘despite’: to know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” – Patrick Rothfuss February was interesting. We …