Swan. Mute swan, to be explicit. They aren’t exactly mute, but have a range of hisses and other sounds. When I lived in Norfolk, I was lucky enough to be closely associated with two pairs of swans – and all
Swan Guard #writephoto
Reflections on the #AtoZChallenge2021, Camp NaNoFinMo, #writephoto and #IWSG
Reflections on an extremely busy month of April! I decided to wrap all my thoughts into one blog post and make it my IWSG post, too. Insecure Writers Support Group Each month there is also an optional question as a
V is for Verse Forms #writephoto #AtoZChallenge2021
Verse forms–of which haiku is one. I mentioned earlier this month that I’d found a whole list of Japanese verse forms: it’s not just haiku. First let me do today’s haiku, which sprang almost immediately into my brain as I
S is for Saurus #writephoto #AtoZChallenge2021
Saurus is the Greek for lizard, which is why the dinosaurs were named after them. Tyrannosaurus=tyrant lizard, and the Rex is the king of them. Brontosaurus is Thunder lizard. The plural Sauria forms the sub-order of lizards under the reptile
H is for Haiku #writephoto #AtoZChallenge 2021
Haiku is a Japanese verse form. Apparently there are lots of different verse forms, and I came across a list of them somewhere recently, but I’ll have to search to find it again. Haiku in my books I’ve been doing
The Cheshire Bunny #writephoto #AtoZChallenge2021
The Cheshire Bunny is my take on this week’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2writing.com. It’s also my second AtoZ post for C! Here’s the photo: If you saw last week’s you’ll know that I’m in a little run
Monday Haiku | The Table in the Woods #writephoto
The Table in the Woods is the #writephoto prompt from last Thursday. Many thanks to KL Caley for such an interesting picture! You can find many marvellous offerings by other people at New 2 Writing, KL’s website. She does a
Monday haiku | Neptune fishing #writephoto
My Neptune fishing haiku today is inspired by KL Caley’s picture for the #writephoto prompt – published last Thursday. I’m having trouble keeping up at present. I just uploaded the final Messenger Misadventures file to the Princelings of the North
Carrying The Fire | #writephoto continues
KL Caley at New 2 Writing is carrying the fire — taking on the #writephoto weekly photoprompt, devised and run by Sue Vincent for over 5 years. Of course we miss Sue’s input, but she said on her blog announcement:
Memory | Haiku #writephoto from 2020
Memory was the #writephoto prompt from 27 February 2020. Last week I hoped Sue’s eyes would improve to enable her to blog again. This week she wrote what she thought would be her Last Post, since the failing eye is
Returning | Haiku #writephoto from January
Returning was the returning writephoto challenge from Sue Vincent in January. I caught up with the second one. Now Sue is having eye trouble and has had to skip blogging for a while till that’s sorted. I know how close
Haiku | Deeper – for this week’s #writephoto
Deeper and deeper into the mire of work backlog… it’s WEP week, so I wasn’t ready to do a second flash fiction in response to Sue Vincent’s #writephoto prompt. Apart from the WEP flash fiction for Wednesday, which I’ve been
Flash Fiction | Appointed #writephoto @SCVincent
Appointed is today’s #writephoto prompt, courtesy of Sue Vincent. This crow sitting on top of a tree reminded me of something I wrote several years ago to the title Crow of Nine-World, but that is no longer on the blog,
Flash Fiction | Guarded #writephoto
Guarded is today’s #writephoto prompt, with the photo below, and I’m pleased to say it is a 2021 one! Sue Vincent is providing prompts as long as she can, so it has spurred me on through a little non-writing spell.
Wednesday #writephoto | Entrance
Entrance, a #writephoto prompt, succeeded the first one I did last year. Hopefully, I can fill in last year’s gaps with stories this year, until Sue Vincent returns to full strength. I write that in hope, but Sue’s post last
Flash Fiction | Chill #writephoto Connections #Giftmas2020
Connections and Chill, two words that combined to give me a flash fiction prompt. This story gives me a second chance to direct you to the Giftmas 2020 fundraising effort, with all the details in yesterday’s post. I’m continuing to
Thursday #writephoto | Afar
Afar: the photo prompt from this time last year in Sue Vincent’s #writephoto meme. A chance remark from a friend started this one off. Another friend fostered a greyhound during the first lockdown here in England, and yet another friend
Thursday #Writephoto | Light Mishap – Woebegone orienteering
Light is this week’s, or rather last year’s, writephoto prompt. I’m catching up on the ones I missed while Sue Vincent is busy with other important things. I hope it’s going well, Sue. So, the word is Light, and the
Thursday #writephoto | Glass: Deirdre Goes Boating
Glass was the writephoto prompt from this time last year. I’m trying to catch up with Sue Vincent’s meme while she’s doing other things. I hope she’s doing well and will be back soon. This was the photo prompt: When
Thursday #writephoto | Balefire #flashfiction
Balefire was the prompt from October 2019. I’m going back to Sue Vincent’s older posts while she’s busy with more pressing things. Here’s the picture: I admit I didn’t know what ‘balefire’ was, but I tossed up between using imagination
Thursday #writephoto | Calling
Thursday #writephoto is the inspiration of Sue Vincent. Each week Sue posted a picture with a prompt and invited bloggers to make what they would of it – whether in poetry, prose or some other way. This is now on
#writephoto early September | Serenity
This beautiful writephoto is the prompt for a blog item relating to Serenity. Writephoto is the brainchild of Sue Vincent, to whom I am very grateful for the reminder to get writing regularly again! The picture took me straight to
#writephoto Late August | Crescent
A crescent moon provides the prompt for this week’s #writephoto offering. This is a rising moon in the photo below, although this week we have a setting crescent moon sinking below the shadow of the tree opposite my front window!
#writephoto for early August | Fantasy
Early August! Already a week gone, and I’m feeling so much more settled now. I’m even back into a routine of writing and work. Too much work, though, with all the moving paperwork I’ve been putting off: secondary address changes
#writephoto | Darkness – an excerpt from Princelings 10
Darkness is today’s #writephoto prompt from Sue Vincent. The picture is below. I took my inspiration from the word rather than the picture of dark roiling clouds over a rolling meadow. As soon as I saw the prompt I thought