List of Phobias
A list of phobias with a brief description of each one. Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing. Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects […]
Tag: Writing
NaNoWriMo 2023
For years I’ve always found the thought of NaNoWriMo quite intimidating and was put off by the sheer amount of words that have to be […]
Words To Use More Often
Just some of my favourite words! lovely proper beautiful swell absurd flawless unique precious hullabaloo scrumptious dandy squabble secure contemplate audacity lousy embrace likely inflection […]
Margaret Atwood’s Ten Rules
Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t […]
Questions To Ask About Magic
When thinking about adding magic to your world building, these are some questions to ask Who has it? Who can use it? Where does it […]
Slow Blogging
I was again starting to plan out an aggressive timetable of blog and social media posts to help me become a ‘successful’ blogger with a […]
Essence of the North
What is the “Essence of the North?” That is what is being asked by The Northerner Blog in the Guardian today. They are asking for […]
Seeing Myself in Children’s Fiction
Growing up in the 60s and early 70s, on a working class estate on the south edge of Edinburgh that was gradually being abandoned, where […]
Father Knox’s Decalogue
The Ten Rules of (Golden Age) Detective Fiction Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (1888-1957) was a British clergyman, editor, a literary critic, a humourist and a […]
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