Going back to my inability to actually put something into the post box. (The Wicked Witch) This time I actually managed to do it. I wrote a poem as a thank you to my best friend. She reads all of my novel extracts and she tells me if things don’t work. She listens to my […]

The Idea for my first noval came to me almost four years ago, after many false starts and periods of the dreaded writers block I finally sat down to write it in January 2008. Since then I’ve been a rubbish girlfriend, a rubbish daughter, a rubbish sister, a terrible aunty, and a pretty rubbish friend. […]

As far as putting things into a post box go, I am rubbish at it. Remembering what day it is, and when it is not a problem for me. I’ll by a card, I’ll write in it, I’ll even address and put a stamp on it. But actually posting it? I seem to have a […]

For those of you who are just discovering my blogs, I am working on my 1st novel – “Life’s A Ball?” that follows the loves the live’s and the losses of five women. Within the first few pages of the novel my main protagonist recieves a Valentine’s Card from “?” With a beautifully hand written […]

I think I was incredibly lucky to be as old as 16 the first time that I experienced the death of a close family member. As the youngest of 5, I know that it could have quite easily been a situation where I was too young to even remember my Grandma but its hard to […]

In September 2007, two of my friends passed away. Both had life threatening conditions and to loose one of them was a bitter blow and myself and my work colleagues were still reeling from the shock when we learnt that the other friend has also passed away. Again, it was the first time I’d experienced […]

I work at in the Fleet Dept, of an insurance company and for Valentine’s Day 2009 we had a competition. The prize was a £20 for pretty much anywhere. The taks was to do something romantic that would capture the managers heart. I wanted my entry to be a poem, but I wasn’t really feeling […]

In the summer of 2000, before my partner and I moved to Leeds, I was studying an AS Level in English Language. My coursework for the class was based around creative writing. I’d already used up 95% of my word allowance on The Basement, when my tutor told me that I needed to submit 2 […]