I'm going to have to raise my game.I've been thinking about it and if I'm serious about this whole writing business, then I need to embrace more than just writing [...]

It's there, tantalisingly close. So close that I can almost taste it on my lips, reach out and run my fingers down its spine, hold it close and feel its [...]

Draft 1 of The Book with No Name is complete. In fact, I completed it a few weeks ago. Then I printed it out - all 248 A4 pages after [...]

Titles are really hard. It's bad enough coming up with the thousands of words that constitutes the story without then having to encapsulate the whole thing in one short phrase. [...]

So I'm 36,829 words into what I'm hoping will turn out to be my fifth novel. Almost halfway through maybe? So how's it going? Well......1. I have a bunch of [...]

Child number 3 is between schools. Primary over and secondary not yet begun. Exciting times ahead.I remember the summer when I was 11 so distinctly. Our gang marauded around on [...]

"A teenager who led police on a 19-minute high-speed chase while his pregnant girlfriend screamed at him to stop has been locked up."Not my words but a sentence pilfered from [...]

You've got to love Maxine Peake.From the irrepressible Twinkle in Dinner Ladies to the straight-talking Martha in Silk, she is fast becoming a national treasure of stage and screen.So when [...]

My course is finished for another year so it's time to focus on other stuff. The garden would be useful or maybe the state of my kitchen cupboards. But no... [...]