This theme conjoured up all kinds of imagery in my mind, it made for a fun one to write about. Another word I have learnt new for this challenge, it's something I love to just sit and listen too. *** The Ancients had existed from the very beginning. Longer than anyone or anything could remember. …
Continue reading Hideaway Fall Writing Challenge Day 6 – Psithurism
Today brings a nice wintery theme for me to write about. Today's theme describes one of the things I love most about the winter period. I look forward to crisp, frosty days coming back. *** Winter. My favourite season. The ever-present hope that I might actually get snowed in by a blanket of fluffy white …
Continue reading Hideaway Fall Writing Challenge Day 5 – Ammil
Another day, another word I've never seen or heard before! It made for a challenge today. Today was a touch more of a struggle. A word I'd never heard or seen before meant a bit more thinking was needed. It took me a bit longer to work out what I wanted to do this time. …
Continue reading Hideaway Fall Writing Challenge Day 4 – Dwale
Today's piece of writing continues the story of the man first introduced in my short story for Day 2 of this writing challenge. It's as if Hideaway Fall have turned to my personal list of favourite words. First 'susurrous', and now 'petrichor'. Not only do I love the word, but I love the smell too …
Continue reading Hideaway Fall Writing Challenge Day 3 – Petrichor
I thouroughly enjoyed writing my piece for the theme set on Monday of 'susurrous'. Today I am sharing my take on the second theme: Kairos. This one fascinated me. It's not a word I knew of before now. That's not overly surprising considering it is an Ancient Greek word. I had to do some research …
Continue reading Hideaway Fall Writing Challenge Day 2 – Kairos
It's been a long time since I last had a go at writing a short story. A small UK publisher, Hideaway Fall have started a daily writing challenge. There's a very simple premise behind it. Each day they will share a theme. Those joining in then write a piece, whatever they like, about that theme. …
Continue reading Hideaway Fall Writing Challenge Day 1 – Susurrous
Wow, what a crazy time it's been of late for me. Some good, some bad. But the one steady constant - writing. I've still been working like a demon on Chasing Shadows to get that ready for release, but there will be more on that in the future. With Chasing Shadows still being a work …
It's only been a few days since I last updated here on progress with my book, which you can read here. There's a lot of work going on behind the scenes now to get it ready to publish. This update is a lot shorter, but I wanted to follow on from my previous announcement of …
It's mid-July and time for another little update! If you've been following my journey with Chasing Shadows, you'll know in my last few updates I have been toying with whether it was going to be a book in two parts, or two separate books. Well since I last wrote here, I've made a decision. A …
Where did June go? Between everything going on in the world, adapting to a new way of life for the time being and a busy period at work it has flown by. In the mean time I've been working on Chasing Shadows daily, a little at a time. I've not achieved the big numbers I …
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