I’m writing a novella. Well, not right now, but I will once I finish the planning stages. If you’ve seen my writing goals, you will know that one of my goals is to turn a short story into a novella. Why a novella? Well, there are two reasons…
What happened to February? It feels like I blinked and the month was gone. I don’t know why, but it feels like time is racing towards something. Well, with a new month, it’s time to check on my progress with my writing goals. Again, I haven’t achieved everything…
On Tuesday 7th February 2017, my fellow Oldbury Writing Group members and I took part in another book reading of our soon to be released World War Two anthology titled From Sunrise to Sunset at Wednesbury Methodist Church. Thanks to our member Dave, we were invited by the…
Wow, I can’t believe it’s February already. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was writing my January writing goals. Well, with January finished, I thought it would be a good idea to review my progress. I feel this will help me to keep on track with…
On Saturday 28th January 2017 I (and the Oldbury Writing Group) will be taking part in the Wolverhampton Literature Festival. For the festival, we will be working with Ian Henery – who is the Walsall Poet Laureate, Black Country Bugle Ambassador, and Walsall Poetry Society Ambassador – on…
On the 26th November 2016 (Yes, this post should have been written ages ago lol), I went to the Dudley Library’s Writers Networking Morning with the Oldbury Writing Group. For the event, there was a panel of four speakers: Nell Dixon, Gemma Todd, Elizabeth Hanbury, and Brenda Read-Brown.…
Wow, I can’t believe 2017 is here already. It feels like I blinked and 2016 disappeared. In my previous post I mentioned how 2016 didn’t go as well as I had hoped, but for 2017 I am determined to do better. I have so many projects that I…
Wow, I cannot believe that 2016 is nearly over already. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was preparing for the start of 2016. I had many goals for 2016: I wanted to have a submission ready novel, I wanted to start writing my next novel, I…
Having noticed that I haven’t edited my novel since July, I have decided to again take part in NaNoEdMo (National Novel Editing Month). Originally, I wanted to take part in NaNoWriMo, but with focusing on my World War Two stories for my writing group WW2 anthology, editing and…
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…