Monday morning inspiration

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening…

Monday morning inspiration

“We all need some time to ourselves – just a few minutes a day to get reacquainted with the one who’s been there since the beginning.” – seen in Starbuck’s, Muswell Hill

Monday morning inspiration

“Let our imagination guide us – and never cease to follow it, for if we do, we grow up and the child inside us is no more.” – seen in Starbuck’s, Muswell Hill

I’m old

It was one of those moments when you realise you’re old – or at least no longer young. I am working on editing the draft of my next novel, and decided to go to a cafe – somewhere I hadn’t…

Monday morning inspiration

“Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the…