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If I only could: or leaving things behind
Tuesday was the first day of November and for the first time since 2012 I’m not going to undertake NaNoWriMo. I started doing this marathon drafting challenge when I didn’t yet know how to write novels. A little over a year after I started this blog, the same time that I left a job I…
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Cover Reveal – Singular Purpose
I’m very excited to reveal the cover for my new novel, Singular Purpose! It’s due for release in February 2023, you can pre-order it here. Freya and Jacob thought their powers were gone for good after they saved the world, they were happy with that. Then one chilly spring morning Odin’s ravens reappear outside their…
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Long Drive Together
Today was dress/tech rehearsal time for the show ‘Long Drive Together’ a new two person play by Neptune Henriksen. I first met Neptune at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015, I had been recommended their work. This new work is a tender, complex look at grief and chanages in friendships. My role is doing the…
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All the New Projects
The last few weeks I’ve been reading The Artist’s Way. A friend of mine suggested a group of us go through the book and support one another in doing the activities. I’ve found the book quite interesting, some of the attitude challenges have been insightful, some of the activities have been fun. I decided some…
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Dawn Chorus
A cry rang out in the night ‘Damn it to Hades,’ he said, hopping Ares had stubbed his toe on the corner of the four-poster bed The god of war, all powerful in some situations, but still fallible in the half-light of the very early morning Aphrodite raised her golden head from the pillow, ‘why…
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Maintenance
I’ve been trying to come up with a blog post for about three weeks and so far, nothing good has come to mind, so I thought I would talk about maintenance. Maintenance is the not at all sexy stuff we do to keep things running – it’s brushing your teeth, or eating healthy or exercising…
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Houndstooth: a book launch
I’ve been a bit quiet here on the blog, not for any reason apart from life getting the better of my time, including starting a new day job. Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend the book launch for my friend and poet, John Lowe’s collection Houndstooth. It was held at Brighton Library, a bit…
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Poetry and travel
For the last thirty days I have been participating in the NaPoWriMo challenge. I have undertaken this challenge the last few years, and have found it valuable if not always easy. This year I followed the prompts for each day, all except for the final day as I’m up in Sydney visiting a friend and…
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I sing a song
I sing a song to pass the timeall the hours from waking to sleep I sing a song of seductionto flirt and flutter when speaking is too hard I sing a song to comfort myselffor company through the lonely stretches I sing a song of righteous indignationfor courage to challenge injustice in the world I…
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Endings and Beginnings
April is my poetry writing month, as I undertake the Na/GloPoWriMo a month-long poetry challenge initiated by Maureen Thorson on the model of NaNoWriMo. Each day Maureen presents a prompt, relating to content, or form, or sometimes both. I have written poetry since I was an angsty teen, some of my previous work still exists…
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