Today I learned a valuable lesson regarding entering writing competitions that require postal entries.....Make sure you put enough postage on!!I sent a postal entry for a short story competition at the end of November. To my complete mortification I … [Read more]
Decision Between the Open University and Writing
I've recently had to make a difficult decision between continuing my studies with the Open University towards a Geosciences degree and leaving it for a year to pursue my dream of writing a novel, something I have always wanted to do. It would seem … [Read more]
Creating the Pseudonym
During the last couple of days I have made a firm decision on using and choosing a pen name for my writing. It wasn't a difficult decision to use one as I want to keep my day job and writing completely and utterly separate, and after a … [Read more]
What Christmas Means to Me.
Christmas is rapidly approaching, at a rate of knots that is unstoppable. The problem with Christmas is that it means so many different things for so many different people that in the end, the main factor that comes out of it is, we spend an … [Read more]
Decembers Monday Mentions
OK, so it's been a while since I did my one and only Monday Mentions blog post, where I promised to make it a weekly occurrence of what I had found interesting to read that past week. Well as you can see, it didn't quite materialise, so how … [Read more]
Assessing Fibromyalgia Diagnosis
Early last week, following my diagnosis of fibromyalgia by the rheumatologist, I visited my GP. I broached my concerns regarding the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia, talking to him about what we had been through this year with my son. I talked about the … [Read more]