Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Solstice is on Wednesday, but this is my last post before Christmas, so I’m hopefully early on the Thursday prompt! Sorry, KL, I’m missing your Carriage prompt entirely. After last week’s wreath, I decided a visit to Castle Marsh was
Gargoyle: one of my favourite architectural features. I took many photos of them at Norwich RC Cathedral when I went there for a conference once and we had a ‘special’ tour, including the roof. But ‘gargoyle’ is also the #writephoto
Which world would I like to live in? That’s the IWSG question today. I’m glad I can answer it because I can’t think of anything to write about just now. My brain is fried, and my inbox is overwhelming me.
Total immersion in my fictional world. That’s the thing that makes writing so exhausting—for me, at any rate. I thought I might write about this for this month’s Insecure Writers Support Group post, because I felt I really learnt something
Zephyrs and other Winds brings you a charming insight into daily life at Castle Marsh. That’s the life of my Princelings of the East. This year I’ve been giving you flashbacks from my previous seven A to Z Challenges, to
Hickling Broad and Horsey Mere combine to make an area in Norfolk that inspires my ‘marsh’ for my Princelings of the East series of books. And since my A to Z Challenge theme is ‘my writing inspiration’, I thought I’d
Illusion: It’s funny sometimes how story ideas come about. I saw one programme (Bargain Hunt) talking about George Cayley, aviation pioneer born in the 18th century, and then a news piece about the anniversary of the RAF, interviewing one of
I went visiting Castle Marsh instead of story-writing – you can see how it started last week. Now read on! Castle Marsh Christmas In which I discover that the Steward stands in for the King at all times I’m flying
I was hoping to do the Deja Vu Blogfest today. This has been an annual flashback event, and I liked it so much I went for the monthly one when that was invented. The brainchild of D L Hammons, it
Fred’s Dilemma takes us forward in the Princelings saga, into the times of book 9. It’s a 1300-word capsule of life at Castle Marsh. I hope you enjoy it. It reminds me that I need to do some more pictures of
Dear all Well, I’ve been at Camp a week now, and it was a fun start, since I threw all my plans up in the air and started again. Well, I didn’t throw out what I’d done of Willoughby’s story,
Strange to include this when the next eBook, The Talent Seekers, describes how Humphrey went west in the first place. This was written as a prologue for a later book, then I realised I wanted to bring Hector and Humphrey
This is an extract from a book I started then realised I wanted to place in a different part of the Princelings timeline. Either that or bring certain characters in earlier. There are some more extracts from it later in
Here we are in the middle of Yuletide again. It’s such a busy time, but very enjoyable, and although he would never admit it, it’s a time Fred finds very stressful these days. There are a lot of duties on
George and I are back home in Castle Marsh after our five day trip to southern Gaul. It was a fascinating and, at times, scary trip. George flew us round the castle as we got lower in the sky, preparing