Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Two Men in a Boat is this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge from Crispina Kemp. It’s a typical boat on Whitlingham Broad, although not one of the oldfashioned Broads boat, which I loved. I’m continuing a set of new ‘dribbles’ for
The Sea of Wheat is this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge from Crispina Kemp. I’ve been looking at a great many wheat field pictures recently, to choose one to use as the planet Corsair on my new book cover. Last week
To speak of trouble, I had trouble with this week’s Crispina Kemp’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge. Lots of lovely pictures, but none really appealed. The Maybug/Junebug/cockchafer was the most promising, knowing how much I like the bizarre. I have been working
hmmm… Forget-me-not. This week Crispina Kemp’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge takes us to Whitlingham Country Park, near Norwich. Right next to Norwich, really, I’m not sure if it is in the city boundary or whether it is the city boundary, if
For Whom the Bell Tolls is of course a Hemingway title. It tolls for thee, I know, but I don’t know anything else about it, except it’s set in the Spanish Civil War. The more I looked at this image
The Crossing Place brought back an instant memory for me. Nothing to do with Elly Griffiths’ first book in the Ruth Galloway series, no this involved a riding school horse who had been born to be a racehorse but just
The bluebell wood was the main feature in the pictures Crispina Kemp gave us for this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge. And there were bluebells – just not as many as Crispina expected. And mine all went very quickly this year…
Goblins in trees, I’ve been seeing them for years… I once did a pastel picture of some beautiful lumpy trees in Epping Forest, and then did another adding in the goblin faces! I sold them both! And I discovered I
Windflowers… well, I think these are windflowers, but the ones I know are very much paler. But I think the leaves are the same. Anyway, the picture of pink ones is my choice for Crispina Kemp‘s weekly Crimson’s Creative Challenge.
The Ghost Door comes from Ruth at Ruth Blogs Here. I just knew there was a story here when Ruth posted it to say the blog would be blank for a few days. It turned out to be 900 words
The Snail Who Sang was a pretty much instant response to Crispina’s challenge this week. CCC is Crimson’s Creative Challenge. Each Wednesday Crispina posts four pictures as prompts for us to do something creative — in 150 words or less.
Breydon Water – a well-known spot for bird watching in Norfolk. Junction of several rivers all fighting to get out into the North Sea through a narrow gap. And featured in several Princelings books, notably Princelings and the Pirates! CCC
“Where the birds fly” came as a prompt from Bluesky’s book community, of which there are many strands. I usually check out booksky, authorsky and the guineapig areas(!). I think this came from Author Sharon Lopes in #authorsky. Today’s story
I was searching for a suitable flashback today, and one with Dylan crossed my search path. Apart from links to stories that featured him and his buddies, there was an extract from the BookElves Anthology featuring him. I didn’t want
Reality screaming swam into my brain shortly after reading Rebecca Douglass’s review of The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, a story of the people in the Great Dust Bowl. In fact the title/prompt I invented after I’d finished writing