• A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore. There were faces all around, looking intently at me, but I recognised none of them Writing Prompt Expanded A piece of advice often given to would be writers is to write about what you know. Well, this

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  • advent noun1 the arrival of a notable person or thing: the advent of television.2 (Advent) the first season of the Church year, leading up to Christmas and including the four preceding Sundays.Old English, from Latin adventus ‘arrival’, from advenire, from ad- ‘to’ + venire ‘come’. Advent has arrived. Of course, there is a certain irony

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  • An overview of my December journal and planner set-up. My Bullet Journal has become more like a bullet journal. However, as I bring everything into one journal I seem to be using more journals! And can you believe it is December already? I hope you are all keeping safe and well? May your planning be

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  • A Black Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore. Yesterday, we gave thanks for all we had. But then we wanted more. Now the being before us demanded payment. Writing Prompt Expanded This is a special Black Friday Fiction Writing Prompt. Following Thanksgiving, the Black

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  • It is a day to give thanks. It may seem like these dark times will never end, but they will. We will look back and say, ‘do you remember when… ‘. Situations change like the seasons. The sun rises and sets, the moon waxes and wanes. A time for all things. New things will come

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  • My latest journal set-up – New Size

    A look at my latest journal set-up as I prepare for the week ahead. I am separating my monthly and weekly from my daily, in an attempt to find the right size and feel for each day. All part of my ongoing quest to find my perfect journal set-up. I’ll be back soon with a review of how is it going.


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  • Finding the right size – Journal update

    Finding the right size - journal update video cover

    A junk journal and planner update in which I talk myself into using another journal… what’s he like?

  • The old journal – Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

    A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

    I discovered it at the bottom of the trunk. I opened the old, dusty journal and began to read. A life long gone breathed again… Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

    I discovered it at the bottom of the trunk. I opened the old, dusty journal and began to read. A life long gone breathed again…

    Writing Prompt Expanded

    You might have noticed but I like to journal. In fact, I am an avid journal user. I often find I am repeating myself in several places. If you picked up and read my journals, you’d get a pretty good idea of what my life is like. And that is exactly where we are going with this prompt

    This prompt is all about recreating a world from the past. Your character is reading an old journal and as they do they discover the life of the person who wrote it.

    • What year was the journal written?
    • Is the journal written by a relative?
    • If they had an occupation, what was it?
    • Was their life difficult or easy?
    • What things concerned them day by day?

    This prompt will help you bring an old world to life. Creating a believable setting for your characters and stories is a vital skill. Using this journal style prompt is one way to do that. You describe someone’s life and therefore describe the world they inhabited. And even just several years in the past can make a huge difference to the way people lived. Smartphones and the Internet didn’t exist twenty or so years back.

    As always these writing prompts are optional and entirely open to your own interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story or something a little more grandiose. If you do write something, please share it or a link, in the comments or tag me. I’d love to read what you create. Write and enjoy the learning process.

    Original Journal Image by JamesDeMers from Pixabay


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  • Dartmoor – Wordless Wednesday

    Dartmoor - Wordless Wednesday
    Dartmoor - Wordless Wednesday
    Dartmoor - Wordless Wednesday

    I went to Dartmoor, this is what I saw.

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  • Actions speak louder than lists – Journal Update

    Actions speak louder than lists - journal update

    A flip through of my junk journal and planner and a little thought about the sort of things I write on my to-do lists. Why do I add things that aren’t actions to my lists? They cause nothing but trouble.

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