It’s been a quiet week as far as writing is concerned. I’m ashamed to say I don’t have much to update you on. I’d say for some inexplicable reason, but I really do think it’s because of the amount of work I put in over November and NaNoWriMo, that I have been completely wiped out.…
My Writing Life – Winning #NaNoWriMo
Last week I talked about being in need of a rest because I was so tired from working hard on my NaNoWriMo project and my editing project. Well, this week I passed the 50,000 word mark on the NaNo project! That is the word count that everyone aims for when they start at the beginning…
The 3 Books of Caroline James
Today I’m pleased to welcome Caroline James to the blog to talk about the three books that have shaped her. Caroline James has owned and run businesses encompassing all aspects of the hospitality industry, a subject that features in her novels. She is based in the UK but has a great fondness for travel and…
My Writing Life – In Need of a Rest
It’s been a mixed week this past week. I’ve both excelled in my writing goals and needed to a day off and to rest. I’ve been saying that I want to write a full novel and not just the NaNoWriMo 50,000 words this month, but I haven’t really been doing the words to advance that…
Writing Crime – Formal Identification of the Deceased
This is a short post today. It’s an important subject but there’s not a lot to say on the matter. It’s on subjects like this that you think people know what happens, but I received the question as part of my consulting service, about how the formal identification of a deceased person was carried out…
My Writing Life ~ Working With Pain
Last week was the first week of this new series, My Writing Life, and I talked about the fact that I had started NaNoWriMo as well as having another project on which I was editing. Well, I ended the week on 11,009 words which were on track as far as NaNoWriMo was concerned. It had…
Writing Crime – The Appropriate Adult
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and its Codes of Practice set out the rules and safeguards for policing in England and Wales and includes the role of the appropriate adult. The role of the appropriate adult is to safeguard the rights, entitlements and welfare of juveniles (under 18s) and vulnerable people. The criminal…
My Writing Life ~ The Start of #NaNoWriMo
Today’s post is the first of a new series of posts journalling my writing life. I will write a weekly post on how the past weeks writing process has gone. I will post the good, the bad and the downright ugly. And there will be plenty of ugly days and weeks when my ill-health gets…
Feed Your Creativity With a Walk
Today I have a short video for you. Do you sometimes get stumped and feel that you need to give the old creativity a bit of a shove? Well, here’s an answer. Go for a walk and see what difference it makes. Take that problem out with you and come back with it resolved. Find…
Recently Read – From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty
From Here to Eternity (Traveling the world to find the good death) by Caitlin Doughty The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with “dignity.” Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for…
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