She’d found it on the beach. It wasn’t much of a thing, just a fake gem from some piece of costume jewellery, but it was glass and not plastic at least. A lovely domed oval of blue glass with little flecks within. Bov held it up to the weak sun light and imagined that each […]
The myth ran somewhat like this – There was a time when the Master made all the races that filled the earths and the skies and the seas. A great dwelling rose up higher than the tallest mountain and that was were the Masters lived with their chosen, they gave them wings and they would […]
It was there beyond the Sandy Hills; everybody knew it, though no one could now recall where the stories had come from. All the elders were certain that the edge, the barrier to their world was beyond the Sandy Hills. Most were scared of what lay there in the beyond but not Inanu. She had […]
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.
Just a quick note to say that you can now get The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry as a gift set with personalised bag I have made and illustrate for each order. There are also keyrings and stickers and things in there. The book itself has ten poems, space for kids to write their own […]
I can’t remember where I saw the call for story ideas now – weather it was via twitter or the leaflet I picked up about the Brum Lit Fest when I was delivering my Cuddly Science puppet show and workshop at the British Science Festival (I was in the library) or via some other random […]
It is GothNoWriMo and I am attempting to write lots of horror and/or spooky halloween themed stuff this month – I am also sorting ideas for future writings 🙂 So here are my 30 story ideas for the younglings: 1) Dino Raw 2) Alien’s Landing 3) The Dragon Over There 4) The Goo 5) Vampyra’s […]
Remembering Us Written for National Poetry Day 2014 Remember the tide lapping at the shore How we walked on shingled beach War bomber fractured in the mudded flats Metal bones peeking at low tide Recall the estuary filled with birds calling You showed me the eddible weeds That grew there Warm salt, bitter Remember the […]
Thought I’d just collect some story ideas together: So we have mythical creatures, other dimensions, historical figures with gruesome acts attached to their names, murderers, being lost and fearing nothing at all, being locked in with your own guilt, plague, change, torture and suspense. There is a question of who populates the story – warewolf, […]