Creative Writing at the Penzance Literary Festival As you know I’m branching out into fiction. And in fact my first book is almost ready to launch. Somewhat terrified but anyway. I saw details of a creative writing course being held at the Penzance Literary Festival. I have great memories of that festival as I was […]
This was a short piece of creative writing I had to do. The brief was to place your character in a heaven or hell scenario. Enjoy. Sheila sat at her table, the nylon upholstery of her chair prickled the backs of her thighs and she wondered how soon she could politely retire to bed. Her dress […]
Oh me. I am a rotten speller, my use of punctuation is chaotic and my syntax is curious. I am an editor’s nightmare and a spell checker’s jackpot, so I thought I would upgrade from my built-in spell checker, which drives me batty, to Grammarly, thinking that it might be better for me. It’s not. […]