Welcome to Friday Fiction. Regular visitors will know that I share a fictional piece here every week and invite others to link up their own work. The blue frog below takes you to the link-up page, where you can either add your own blog pieces or read others. My...
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Friday Fiction – 10 Verbs, 10 Nouns
Welcome to Friday Fiction. Regular visitors will know that I share a fictional piece here every week and invite others to link up their own work. The blue frog below takes you to the link-up page, where you can either add your own blog pieces or read others. For my...
Writing Exercises – Creating Fiction and Exercising the Brain
I finally feel like I am making some headway with my novel re-write. This is thanks, in part, to my daughter doing a two-hour gym session every Saturday. It gives me the opportunity to sit down and write for a reasonable length of time without any interruptions. I’m...
Friday Fiction – Surviving the Winter
This week's Friday Fiction is inspired by a post I saw last week on Jay C Wolfe's blog. The challenge was to write a 55 word story in which the first line has ten words, the second has nine, the third eight and so on, ending with just one word. I wanted to have a go...
Friday Fiction – Celebration
My Friday Fiction post this week is inspired by the prompt - Celebration - given by Sara from mumturnedmom. Right, have you ordered the champagne? And the canapés? I want a glitz and glamour Hollywood Oscars theme. Make sure there's a red carpet; must have the red...
Inspirational Writing
I’ve been a closet writer for the last few years and it wasn’t until I did NaNoWriMo last November, that I actually plucked up the courage to socialise with other writers. I surprised myself by making such a bold step and I haven’t looked back since. Now I’ve gone...
Friday Fiction
This week's Friday Fiction is inspired by the prompt 'Family' from Sara at mumturnedmom. Using a prompt is a great source of inspiration for your writing. I don't know where this one came from - it's a bit morbid really but there you go - how the mind works sometimes!...
How Do You Choose The Right Point Of View For Your Story?
I am re-writing a novel and it occurred to me that since first starting it, I have changed the point of view three times. The first edit started life as a short story and I wrote it in the third person singular tense. At the time, I remember feeling like it didn’t...
Friday Fiction – Henry Haynes and the Great Escape
Welcome to Friday Fiction. I have a real treat for you this week. Children's author Karen Inglis has kindly provided an extract from her book Henry Haynes and the Great Escape. It comes complete with beautiful illustrations - these feature in the book itself. I hope...
Friday Fiction – Using Prompts To Develop Your Story And Characters
Welcome to Friday Fiction and thanks for stopping by. If you want to read some fiction, share some work, get help with something you are working on, meet new people, you have come to the right place. You will find a blue frog at the bottom of this post. Click on this...
Friday Fiction – Making Character Discoveries
Welcome to Friday Fiction and thanks for stopping by. If you want to read some fiction, share some work, get help with something you are working on, meet new people, you have come to the right place. You will find a blue frog at the bottom of this post. Click on this...
A Hero For Jessica – Friday Fiction
Welcome to Friday Fiction. Today, guest author Pamela Thibodeaux provides an extract from her book, A Hero for Jessica. The link is open, as usual, for you to add your own work and read and comment on others'. He arose as usual on Saturday morning at five-thirty and...
The Last Day – Friday Fiction
I'm delighted to have guest author, Emily Organ sharing an extract from her book The Last Day, for Friday Fiction this week. The link is open as usual, for you to share your own work, comment on others' and hopefully gain some feedback and ideas. George walked towards...
There’s Something Spooky Going On – Halloween Friday Fiction
Welcome to Friday Fiction: a place where I share extracts of writing (my own and that of published authors). This is a link-up, where you can add your own work, read others' and hopefully get some feedback and ideas (see the Blue Frog below to add your link). Here is...
I Don’t Want To Be Your Ghost – Friday Fiction
This week, my Friday Fiction post is based on a prompt I found. Like a previous post I wrote, the inspiration comes from a song, only this time, it is the title of the song from which the prompt is based. Here it is in full: Your prompt this week is to take the...
Friday Fiction – The Mistakes We Make
For my Friday Fiction post this week, I am having my first go at The Prompt, from Sarah at Mum Turned Mom. I am delving into the mind of one of the secondary characters of my story, to write this from his point of view. Thank you to all who joined in and linked up...
Friday Fiction – Finding Writing Inspiration (Part 3)
I have covered different ways of finding writing inspiration in these Friday posts. If you missed part 1 and part 2, please feel free to catch up and I hope you find it useful. This week I am looking at creating fictional pieces from real life stories. I found this...
Summarising Your Story – Friday Fiction
I met a (retired) lady once who happened to have worked in publishing all her life. We chatted over coffee and I told her I was attempting to write a novel. 'Go on then,' she said. 'Tell me what it is all about.' I froze. Like a rabbit in a headlight. Then I began a...
Character Development – Friday Fiction
I am looking at character development this week. I took two characters from the novel I am working on and put them in a new situation. The scenario I created is further on in time than the novel itself. It is something that might happen to my characters in their...
Winter Madness – Pamela Thibodeaux, on Friday Fiction
Welcome to Friday Fiction. Today guest author Pamela Thibodeaux provides an extract from her book, Winter Madness. Her merry hazel eyes danced with humor, but she simply arched an eyebrow at him without comment and rose from her chair. She held a hand toward him....