‘Meeting the Parents’ is a 50-word story. This story was written for the NineVoices’ 2016 50-word Halloween competition. For the competition, I had to write a 50-word story inspired by a photo of gravestones at Whitby Abbey. For a while, I was stuck for a story idea. I…
It’s November 1st, and that can only mean one thing – it’s finally time for NaNoEdMo (or NaNoWriMo for those writing a novel this month). I can’t believe how quickly November has come round. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was deciding whether to take part…
On Saturday 8th October my writing group took part in the West Bromwich at War event. I mentioned this event in my last post titled ‘Oldbury Writing Group Event – World War Two Anthology Reading’. For the event, we read out a selection of short stories and poems…
On the 8th October 2016, the Oldbury Writing Group will be taking part in the West Bromwich at War event at the Central Library. The event starts at 11 am, and we will be reading out a selection of poems and short stories from our World War Two…
Lately, I have struggled with a lack of motivation, not just in my writing, but also with everything. I think it’s because I feel overwhelmed by everything that I need to do. I don’t help myself. I keep adding work onto my to-do list when I should focus…
On the 11th June 2016, I went to see the Our Shakespeare Exhibition at the Library of Birmingham with my writing group. When I heard about the exhibition opening, I thought it would be a great trip idea for the writing group. And with me getting back into…
On 7th May, my writing group and I went to the Museum of Cannock Chase’s VE Day event. As my writing group is writing a World War Two anthology, we thought it would be great for our research to go to this event, and we were proved right.…
Last month I went to the PowWow Festival of Writing (2025 Update: the festival no longer runs). Again, I went with my writing group, and we had a brilliant time. However, the weather wasn’t great, but thankfully we were under the heated marquee to keep off the chill…
Last Saturday my writing group held a Mad Hatter’s tea party book festival to celebrate World Book Night. As always, we had a brilliant time, and we had a decent turnout for the event. The event started with a poetry reading by Ian Henery. We also had the…
I have 53 short stories, one novel, one novella, and my WW2 story contributions (10 in total) to edit and get submission ready, but yet I’m struggling to resist new story submission calls. It’s like a drug. I’ve just seen one on the cult of me website, and…