Life is stressful. The past few months have been challenging, and since the death of my beloved dog I feel that my creative spark has all ...

This year I consciously avoided participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). It has been something of an obsession for about...

We have passed the halfway point for #NaNoWriMo 2017 , and I have to say I am really not engaging with it. My novel has not yet reached 20,...

Boo! Scared you! Ha ha, yes we are celebrating my favourite time of year, Halloween, or Samhain as I prefer to call the festival. See m...

Oops! It seems I forgot to do my Thursday blog this week, bad girl *slaps wrists* In my defense, I have been very busy and quite overwhelme...

Ha ha, did you recognise my TV commercial reference? Well, the month of #NaNoWriMo is flying by, and today we celebrate my husband’s birth...

I am half way there and feeling quietly confident about #NaNoWriMo 2016 . My novel is progressing slowly and steadily. I find that I can...

Just a brief update today since I am well on the way to completing #NaNoWriMo2016 and I am powering through! Well, ok, I am plodding throu...

Wow, is it that time of year again? Cor blimey, it has been another busy one. Well, this time I am incredibly excited to return to #NaNoWr...

The past week has been very challenging for me. I fought hard to catch up with #NaNoWriMo, and for a couple of days my Muse was wild and act...

Phew, what a day! It has been a challenging start to #NaNoWriMo2015, with the shock of a family bereavement last week. It was my wonderful N...

We are barely one week into the month that is #NaNoWriMo and I have to admit, this year I am struggling already. It doesn’t help that there...

Oh yes, the time has come! We are fast approaching that marvellous month of madness and mayhem…it is time for National Novel Writing Month, ...

This is quite difficult to admit, but I am not going to win the #NaNoWriMo challenge this year. I didn't honestly believe I would get ve...

Hello and welcome to the Hump Day Hook . In honour of National Novel Writing Month 2013, this week I share an excerpt from my ‘winning’ manu...

Hello and welcome to the Hump Day Hook . In honour of National Novel Writing Month 2013, today I share an excerpt from my ‘winning’ manuscri...

So, we are on day 4 of National Novel Writing Month 2013, and while I am still behind on my daily word count, I feel positive and happy tha...

I have been struggling with a manuscript for about the last six months, and so I decided it was time to get help. I turned once again to...

I know many fellow writers who eagerly participate in the annual novelling challenge that is NaNoWriMo. In fact, I found myself feeling a li...

I did it! I won NaNoWriMo 2012 and I feel epic (to quote a rather annoying British television commercial!) My final word count came in at ...