Fiction writing

Friday Fiction – Jokes for Dads

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...

Friday Fiction – 10 Verbs, 10 Nouns

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...

Friday Fiction – Surviving the Winter

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...

100K in 100 Days – Progress (Or Not!)

100K in 100 Days – Progress (Or Not!)

January is as busy for us as December and I'm so glad that it's over. I don't normally wish time away like that, but I feel that we all need a bit of a break now. What was I thinking taking on the 100K in 100 Days challenge? Somewhere along the way, I’ve lost count of...

Friday Fiction – Celebration

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

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

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!...

Friday Fiction – Making Character Discoveries

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

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...

Friday Fiction – First Drafts

Friday Fiction – First Drafts

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...

I Don’t Want To Be Your Ghost – Friday Fiction

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

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...

Summarising Your Story – Friday Fiction

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

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...