Victor. I meant to use the post I did for the NATO Alphabet in 2014, but it was an excerpt about the storm in his book, Bravo Victor, where he hides under his bed. I’m sure I’ve used that recently,
V for Victor in the 2014 and 2017 #AtoZchallenge
N for November for NaNoWriMo – 2014 #AtoZChallenge
November is the word for N in the NATO alphabet, which is the theme I chose for the A to Z Challenge in 2014. This year I’m doing flashbacks to my seven A2Zs, in honour of the Challenge’s tenth anniversary.
B is for Bravo – Victor, that is #atozchallenge
Bravo, Victor. In fact the title of my sixth book is Bravo Victor without any punctuation. My theme for this year’s anniversary A to Z Challenge is Flashbacks. I’m picking posts from my previous seven A to Zs. In 2014
Z for Zulu
The final post of this year’s A to Z challenge brings me to Zulu. I confess I don’t know much about Zulus. Like many Brits of my age, I think of the Michael Caine film of that name, which depicts
A Yankee haiku
Are you a Yankee? To me an American, To you, New England? Wikipedia has a fascinating entry for the word Yankee. To me, in the UK, and also in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada, it means an American. It
X for X-ray
We reach the final week of the A to Z Challenge, and today I’m delighted to welcome Vidya Sury, one of my co-minions on #TeamDamyanti. As well as her minioning, Vidya has been running the challenge on two blogs –
W for Whiskey – Whiskey Rebellion in fact
Saturdays mean book reviews here, so knowing that W is for Whiskey in the NATO alphabet I set out to find a suitable book for the A to Z Challenge. I was tempted to search out Whiskey Galore, which is
V for Victor – an excerpt from Bravo Victor
I decided to take a break from flash fiction this week and give you an extract from the new book instead. Since the cover illustration clearly shows a storm brewing, I decided to jump in with a 600 word extract
U for Uniform
Uniform – the designator for U in the NATO International Alphabet. Even if you didn’t have an official school uniform, you probably wore clothes that were uniform in their character. They blended in with your schoolmates’. Even though we like
Tuesday haiku – Sierra
S for Sierra: Mountain ridges tipped with snow. It’s a Spanish word. Sierra is specifically a mountain range, not just a mountain. It is used extensively in Spanish speaking areas, or when the Spanish settlers named the landforms. This picture
R is for Romeo
I was trying to keep away from the obvious explanation of the letter R in the NATO alphabet, so Google and Wikipedia searches give us: A village in Macomb County, Michigan, USA; also towns in Colorado, Florida and Tennessee Romeo
P is for Papa and Flash Fiction Friday
Our writing prompt guru Chuck Wendig decided to do an opening line challenge this week. In theory we write the opening line for today and next week we pick one and write the story. So I wrote: Nobody in her
O is for Oscar
Oscar is the phonetic word for O in the NATO Alphabet. I suppose what most people think of first is the Oscars – the awards from the Academy of Motion Pictures. I bought a replica of the statuette on my
N for November for NaNoWriMo
For many people, November (the phonetic word for N) is the National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo. When I first started writing and blogging, I saw these references to NaNoWriMo and wondered what on earth it meant. Three years on I’ve
Tuesday haiku – Mike
M is a challenge. Mike is hard in a haiku And M is for Mike! Well, I’m really stretching it here! Mike is not an easy word for a discussion anyway – do you go for the abbreviation for a