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I've stepped back to write about Jenna Andrews and Hugo Pearce once again. #writer #writingcommunity

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Read my 2nd piece for The Writers' Studio Writers' Gym course. Confrontation: Jo and Gerry #writer #writingcommunity

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Read the first piece I created for my 3rd course with The Writers' Studio, Back Again: Jo Moloney 1 #writer #writingcommunity

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The Gardener

The Gardener is my fantasy/magic realism story for The Writers' Studio genre course. Read it now #writer #writingcommunity

**The final of the genre short stories that we had to write for The Writers’ Studio course was the fantasy/magical realism. I enjoyed creating these characters and I think that at some point I might just do something else with them.** Saturday 30 November – Friday 6 December 2024 Crispin Chaucer knelt in the loamy soil of Lotte Torvald���s garden, his calloused fingers deftly combing through the…

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Sixty-Six Per Cent

Do read my comic short story, Sixty-Six Per Cent, written for The Writers' Studio genre course #writer #writingcommunity

**In the next installment of genre writing for The Writers’ Studio, we have my comedy story. Great feedback again from my tutor. Writing comedy is a challenge, especially when you don’t think what you’re writing is funny.** Saturday 23 November – Friday 6 December 2024 The day had arrived that would enshrine Theo Colton in the annals of the most outstanding teachers in the history of Lady…

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Marked

Read Marked. It's a thriller/action story. #writer #writingcommunity TW: It deals with human trafficking

**This is my thriller/action story for The Writer’s Studio Genre course. I’m pleased to say that my tutor’s feedback was very helpful in how to improve the piece, and she did say that I nailed the thriller aspect as well as the action aspect of the story. I can write thrillers and actions! Trigger warning: This story does deal with human trafficking.** Saturday 9 – Tuesday 12 November…

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Gone

Read Gone - it's a love story I wrote for the genre course by The Writers' Studio #writer #Writingcommunity

**This is the first of the new stories I completed for The Writers’ Studio Short Story: Genre course. It is a love story. I know, right?! Where the hell did that come from? I’ve written a love story, and my tutor thought I hit all of the requirements. Who knew?** Friday 1 – Sunday 3 November Autumn had finally reached Greenwood Park. Alex acknowledged the chill in the air with the slightest of…

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Review: I Don't Want To Talk About It by Lesley Saddington

Read my review of Lesley Saddington's biography of her son, Tony Carden, I Don't Want To Talk About It #writer #writingcommunity

Tuesday 31 December 2024 **For transparency purposes, I received no remuneration for this review. However, I did receive a paperback copy of the book from AE Creative Communications.** Tony Carden’s biography, I Don’t Want To Talk About It, by his mother, Lesley Saddington. I held on to this book a long while before settling down to read it. I knew that a biography written by a mother of her…

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Final Words . . .

This is the final piece of the Jenna Andrews' puzzle. #writer #WritingCommunity

**This is the final piece I wrote for Unlocking Creativity online with the Writers’ Studio. It is the culmination of lots of work on the Jenna Andrews story. You’ll finally find out what was on the paper.** Saturday 31 August 2024 As dusk’s light filtered in through her study window, bathing the room in shades of apricot, Jenna Andrews looked at the young woman in the photo on her immaculate…

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Afraid, Intimidating & Worst Nightmare . . .

Here are the 1st 3 stages of Jenna Andrew's story, initially written as individual pieces. #writer #WritingCommunity

**We’re heading into the final pieces we had to write for the Writers’ Studio Unlocking Creativity online course. These 3 pieces that I’m posting today were written as individuals. As it turns out, I enjoyed writing about Jenna Andrews, so once ‘Afraid’ was written, I continued her journey into ‘Intimidating’. My tutor asked, as a favour to him, would I continue Jenna’s story because he wanted to…

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Challenge . . .

Here's the resolution from last week's piece. Remember there is a trigger warning for coercive control on this piece #writer #WritingCommunity

**As mentioned last week, this week’s piece is like a resolution, a part 2 of ‘Pressure’. Once we’d applied the pressure to the character, we had to up it to a challenge piece. We’re back with Alex and Matt. As I’ve written before, the Writers’ Studio really pushed us out of our comfort zone and on to more complex things in order to develop and refine skills. Remember there is a trigger warning…

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Pressure . . .

Trigger warning: This piece deals with coercive control. It is the 1st of a 2 parter. #writer #WritingCommunity

**Here’s where things started to get really interesting with Unlocking Creativity online from The Writers’ Studio. We had to start applying pressure on the characters we were creating. For me the characters in this piece and next week’s piece needed some sort of resolution. Consider these like a part 1 and part 2. It is entirely possible to make a character utterly deplorable in 300 words.…

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Coughing Fit . . .

This was a lot of fun to write. Do read about the evening of the Coughing Fit #writer #WritingCommunity

**This was an extraordinarily fun piece to put together. Initially written as 5 different segments that linked in together, the final piece had a specific word limit, so parts of it had to be edited out. That honestly killed me because I loved every word I wrote. So, with that in mind, rather than share with you the edited version I did for the Writers’ Studio, I’m sharing my unedited piece that…

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Song: Hello . . .

This piece had to be inspired by our favourite song. Of course I chose Adele's 'Hello'. #writingcommunity #writer

**The Writers’ Studio Unlocking Creativity online course asked us, if we wanted, to choose our favourite song and use it as inspiration for a piece of writing. It was always going to be an Adele song. And if I’m honest, despite considering others, it was always going to be ‘Hello’. This is what came out of listening to ‘Hello’, focusing on the line ‘Did you ever make it out of that town where…

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Miss Phryne waiting for her blood test results this morning . . .

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Love Hurts . . .

A short piece about love hurting. #writer #WritingCommunity

**This was a piece that we could write and post if we wanted. I thought I’d turn things on their head with ‘Love Hurts’. This is the sentence that I link the Writers’ Studio in so if any of you want to undertake a course, you can get there easily.** Saturday 17 August 2024 Georgia stared at the carriage clock on the occasional table by the television. She could see that the hands had barely…

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Life Sucks . . .

A bit of a sadder piece this time. #writer #WritingCommunity

**Trigger warning here: this is a bit of a sad one and it deals with terminal illness. Again, it’s the Writers’ Studio getting us to push our boundaries.** Saturday 17 August 2024 The children sat on the end of the pier dangling their feet in the water. Helena, sheltered by the old elm tree, watched them enjoying the last days of summer. Of the four weeks Helena had left, she was deep into the…