It’s Halloween and we have a sort of party in progress – an All Hallows Read – an idea started by Neil Gaiman where people give horror books for Halloween. We haven’t been very good at remembering the books as the kids – ours and other peoples hurtle about or sit sit absorbed into the […]
Halloween when all things pumpkin appear – use this picture of a pumpkin flag to inspire your own little spooky tale!
Use this picture as the basis for a story of your own.
This month I am taking part in a writing challenge called GothNoWriMo – where you write a gothic or horror novel in a month. We are two thirds of the way through this month and I am struggling a bit, there has been alot of other stuff going on from working at the Cheltenham Literature […]
Halloween is nearing so here are some chocolate bones and skulls and vampire teeth to get the creative juices flowing.
As a writing tool and as part of the hunt for artists for book covers, I love Pinterest and so I have set up a board of spooky, dark or halloween themed pictures. These are images that I personally find inspiring 🙂 Enjoy – they are here.
This is an amazing visual of Tudor London and absolutely epic story fodder or if you all ready have a story you are working on that is set in this time period, then this is essential viewing! The effort that has gone into creating this is amazing and it has apparently won awards. For me […]
Use this picture as inspiration for writing a story.
WE I wrote a couple of shorts, a couple of poems and then I hit a snag – one of the stories based on a nightmare I had, kind of didn’t want to be a flash fiction, nor a short story as it turned out. Nope it wants to be a novel or a novelette […]
Story inspiration – look at the picture of the two children in the wooded bower maze, what are they feeling? Why are they there? Now set a timer and begin writing 🙂 Photo can also be found here and to find out what they were actually doing look here.