Magenta Monster

Picture a Story is a series of photographs and images by Sarah Snell-Pym that other writers may use as writing inspiration.

I found I can do a bit of long hand writing so as part of Camp NaNo me and my 9 yr old have decided that we are going to have a Stubby Marathon. Yes I did just make that up! The plan is that we start out with a ream of paper and a […]

So the kids ideas I have been generating and working on and comic book progress are over on Orange Monster. And I also have a page for the concept sketches for The Punk’s Universe 🙂 Here.

The beginning of may always sees one of the madnesses that is the writing and creative challenges that I love so much. This time it is National Picture Book Writing Week where the idea is to write a picture book a day for seven days – it is intense but productive 🙂 I tend to […]

I completed this years script and worked a lot on previous scripts – applied for comic book fairs and got my comic book script questions answered by Neil Gaiman – this is SUCCESS 😀

I do love my writing challenges and April is a busy month with a poem a day writing challenge known as National Poetry Writing Month and Screnzy or Script Frenzy which was an off shoot of Novel Writing Month that I do in November. Now Screnzy stopped officially existed a while back but there is […]

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 […]