Craft is the prompt for Monday. They do say that you can use the prompt any way you want. Stefan Kraft is my favourite ski jumper, and we are in the middle of ski jumping season. That means I spend
Writing on Toast | #JusJoJan24 the 14th
Writing is today’s, and Toast was the prompt for Friday. I had an interesting couple of days last week with machinery going wrong, including my heating system. Not the right sort of weather for heating problems, but I’m beginning to
Book Review | The Queen of Poisons
The Queen of Poisons sounded like a good read, so I requested an ARC from Netgalley and the publishers. Besides, it gives me a Q for my Alphabet Soup Challenge for 2024. If only there were more U, V, X,
Olive | #JusJoJan24 the 11th
Olive is the prompt for Thursday. I’m not sure whether this is the fruit or a person or just the name, but I guess a prompt is a prompt and you use it however you like! Just Jot It January
Pastime | #JusJoJan24 the 9th
Pastime is the prompt for Tuesday. There isn’t one for tomorrow when it becomes One Liner Wednesday. I’ll think about that. Just Jot It January is by Linda Hill (with help from her friends). You can jot something down for
Curious and Gratitude | #JusJoJan24 the 7th and 8th
Curious is the prompt for Sunday, and Gratitude is the prompt for today, Monday. I haven’t seen a #writephoto prompt for this week, so I hope that KL is okay, and perhaps the new baby has come. I thought I
Book Review | Relight My Fire by C K McDonnell
Relight My Fire continues the great series based around a weird newspaper called The Stranger Times. I’m very grateful to the publishers and Netgalley for an ARC. The book is due to be published later this month (Jan 24th). Relight
Penultimate | #JusJoJan24 the 5th
Penultimate is the prompt for Friday. There isn’t one for Saturday when another meme takes over – Stream of Consciousness Saturday. I’ll have a book review as normal (a really good book – come and see!). Just Jot It January
Captivating | #JusJoJan24 the 4th
Captivating is the prompt for Thursday. There wasn’t one for Wednesday when another meme takes over – One Liner Wednesday. Just Jot It January is by Linda Hill (with help from her friends). You can jot something down for the
Do you like Reading Challenges | #IWSG
Happy New Year! Here we are in 2024 and I’m starting a new year of Reading Challenges. As we writers are exhorted to read, and read widely, to improve our own writing skills, I thought it was fair to combine
Train + Gregorian | #JusJoJan24 the 1st + 2nd
Train is the prompt for 1st January. You may notice it’s Jan 2nd already, so I’m catching up with a two in one jotting. Just Jot It January is by Linda Hill (with help from her friends). You can jot
Best Book of the Year 2023
So this is it. Of nearly seventy fiction and non-fiction titles I’ve read this year, which is the best book? Which ones will I be recommending, or have I been recommending, at my Craft Fair stall? Given that I’m still
Book Review | Loot by Tania James
Loot by Tania James came to me as an ARC from netgalley and the publishers. I thank all the publishers who have sent me copies this year – there have been a lot of them and I’ve mostly enjoyed them.
Grotto | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Grotto – a great #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. It took me less than five minutes to get the spark for the first line of this one, and I enjoyed writing it. I hope nobody is offended, though.
Book Review | Juicy Ghosts by Rudy Rucker
Juicy Ghosts has been sitting on my Kindle for about eighteen months, and I’d earmarked it for this year’s J in the Alphabet Soup Challenge. A nice weird conclusion, really! I got it in a storybundle and then got some