I binge-watched the last two episodes of Mike Bartlett`s `Life` at the weekend. After it was over felt as if I had been out for a huge meal, and needed hours in which to digest what I had absorbed. 4 flats in a big old house, somewhere like Walley Range, Manchester. A grieving widower, played […]
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Such a mixed couple of days. I completed several tasks that needed completing, and rejoined The Writers` Guild, and our vacuum cleaner broke, and we became reglued to the TV, just like in March and April, to see where Covid is now leading us. Our oldest grandson is starting university – we have no idea […]
The last couple of weeks, I have had lots of things to think about. Almost ready to name the independent American publisher who tells me he wants to publish `Shula,` my short story collection. I have rejoined The Writers` Guild in honour of this happening. My story `Words` is due to appear on the website […]
This has been a full and interesting week. I have received some moving emails in response to M E and Me. One person, among other things found the memoir comforting – and said it reflected so many of her experiences. Her husband has suffered from M E for a long time. Another person, a long-since […]
I have been really anxious in the last day or two. The numbers of people ordering my little ebook have increased daily. I keep taking out the paper copy, re-reading it, noticing the hundred places where an extra word would help. Or a sentence. Or even half a page. After all, the thing is short. […]
M E & Me is now available as an ebook online. Many thanks to John Wheatley for amazing help and support. John Wheatley, who has written and published a number of books, most of them extremely well-researched historical novels, is not only a friend of a friend – but happens to have been English and […]
I`m not sure how often, if at all I have referred to M E, since I began blogging. I have had it, or something like it twice. Or perhaps three times. No need to go into detail, as I have already done this in a 20,000 word memoir which I have called M E and […]
I have noted, and complained about the almost ubiquitous tendency on the part of mainly male writers, to start the tales they want to tell by `killing off` the mother of the plot. Certainly, had I specialized in English, and done a PhD, I would have explored this paradigm in my research! Last night I […]
In parallel with lockdown, I stopped blogging. No idea why. In a period like this, talking to the air, sending words out there, is surely a very human thing to do? Perhaps I was stopped in my tracks because so many of my blogs have included comments on plays I have seen. It isn`t as […]