Lost in Cyberspace

It’s a wretched, rainy, cold and windy day.  Sitting in my office at the top of the house, it sounded like the entire terrace would blow down.  All I wanted to do was take a nice long lap.  I decided it would be a good time to take a look at the list of...

When It Works, It Works!

When I sat down to write this morning, it was one of those scary moments.  I’ve been very organized about this new novel I’m writing, getting the structure down, plotting it out.  But today, I went into it knowing I had no idea what was supposed to come...

Dirty Water

It seems my last blog reared up a great conversation about daily word counts — lots of terrific advice and support.  Another blogger, JJ: Tea-Stains, continued it all with the eternal question of how to get on with it.  It reminded me of a conversation I had...

When is Enough Enough?

First, let me thank all of my new blogger friends who have found me even after just one day of being on-line!  I’ve tried to say hi and thanks to you all — have I done it correctly? Under your comments I posted again on my own site, but if I should have...

Writing and the River

My poor teenage son had to wake up at 5.45 this Sunday morning to go to a rowing race on Dorney lake near Eton.  Although I could go back to sleep after he was up and out the door, my head was full of this new blog, what to write about, how to say it, how to show it...