Magenta Monster

Look at the image above – what is it off? What is the story behind this little toy monster? Who made it and why? Use the picture to write a story.

I post pictures, photos or images for writers to use to get the creative juices flowing. I captured this picture on New Years Day in the Forest of Dean – I think the stick looks like a dragon. What does it say to you?

Yes I know we are just at the end of the Month of Poetry but I am preparing for WoPo – the World Poetry Writing Month and not least because I am running the website again this year 🙂 I have been motoring my way through the poetry writing stuff for this month – but […]

Saturday the 7th of February is the True Believers Comic Festival at the Cheltenham race course – this is gearing up to be an absolutely epic event. I have a table and will be there with my books, prints of Snobberlinks and what have you 🙂 I will also be launching my Punk Comic series […]

I am very honoured to have been included in the team organising the Gloucestershire round of (Poetry By Heart)[http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/] competition. I have been the guest poet and judge at the event in previous years and the school kids have amazed me with their deep understanding of the poetry and how this transfers to the performances […]

It’s my birthday and January is creeping away from me so basically I thought that I would take this weekend as a bit of self imposed writing retreat. I have note books and smelly candles and birthday cake being made for me and I have invited a few other writers to join in with my […]

I have been focusing on actually writing poems for the first part of the Month of Poetry. I know that is kind of the point but I tend to use writing challenges like these to get projects moved along so say when I was doing the Little Books I would set myself time to do […]

It is a New Year, all bright and shiny and full of potential – as always I am shaking up my writing and creative routines which I need to do to keep them fresh and productive 🙂 First off this year maybe quiet laid back or it could be exciting, there are several things both […]

In our household Christmas is one of the most exciting, busy, relaxing, lovely, hectic, glittery times of the year. Many of our traditions come from outside of Christianity though with mixes of faiths on both sides and pagan roots to local and regional festives. This leads me to this weeks writing – list ten traditions […]

To help all the other writers out there and because it helps spark the writery part of my own brain I thought I’d share this little exercies: First write down five words you associate with Christmas. 1) Snow 2) Presents 3) Star 4) Ginger Bread 5) Board Games Now taking the first word you have […]