Here’s my attempt for this week’s Fiction Friday challenge on the Write Anything blog. Today’s challenge is; The bag was empty except for a smudged slip of paper which said, “Sorry.” “Bitch!” Casey screwed up the bag and threw it into the bin by her desk. “Something wrong?” asked Anna. Casey sat back in her […]
Creative Writing
Writing A Web Serial
I’ve just posted the second instalment of my new series. This particular series is called The First Tale, as I’m planning on a whole set of stories set in my fictional city of Vertigo. It’s a whole new challenge writing a weekly serial but it gives me a deadline (and therefore the motivation to write […]
Apocalypse
On 5 February, I wrote an entry about the power of books, inspired by The Book of Eli. Today I want to write about something else, inspired by the same film – the post-apocalyptic trend in fiction. Back on 21 January, I wrote an entry about The Road. Films often reflect the world or society […]
Still Running (Flash Fiction)
Apologies for the lapse in blogging, dear friends – real life had that annoying habit of getting in the way. Weddings, interviews – that sort of thing. Anyway. I’ve just been looking back through my notebook and discovered I actually have some reasonably decent work squirrelled away in there, so I must prompt myself to […]
Creativity game
There seem to be posts on creativity all over the blogosphere at the moment, two of the best being Melissa Donovan’s post over at Writing Forward and Mary Jaksch’s post at Write to Done. I remember one person saying that you couldn’t describe yourself as ‘creative’ unless you did anything deemed to be such, since […]
Writing Success for 2009
2009 is certainly ending with a bit of a celebration for me! Sadly I didn’t win the Misfit Salon Micro Fiction contest, but I still got published in the first issue of the Misfit Magazine! You can read my entry, The Stairs, here. I also urge you to read the other entries as they’re very […]
