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Dawn and Immanence

These are pictures of a hay meadow taken on my morning walk, leading up to 7am. Since I am a set-on-auto/point/click sort of photographer, they do make the land look rather dark, which it wasn’t, of course, because it was light long before the sun peeked over the horizon. Slightly more obvious that it’s lightContinue reading “Dawn and Immanence”

Pants and Plots – Thorne Moore

Thanks to Crime Cymru, I am panting to explain why I don’t plot. Or do I? Crime Cymru In this weeks blog Crime Cymru’s Thorne Moore answers one of the regular questions authors have to field. Needless to say we all have a different spin on the answer – sounds confusing? – read on…… PantsContinue reading “Pants and Plots – Thorne Moore”

Sunday Book Review – The Unravelling – A Domestic Noir #Thriller by Thorne Moore

Originally posted on DGKayewriter.com:
Welcome to my Sunday Book Review. Today I’m reviewing The Unravelling by Thorne Moore. I’ve had this book on my Kindle for some time now, always remembering I wanted to push it up for reading. This book is a well written tale about a woman with a damaged memory because…

Reading, Writing and Multitasking

A really good piece of advice for novel writers is: read. Read novels, read lots of novels, read every day, keep reading. That’s the way you learn how a book works, how it is constructed, what it gives and what it takes. You learn what language can do. So any decent writer obeys this adviceContinue reading “Reading, Writing and Multitasking”

The Cold Dead Hand of the Written Word

The pen is mightier than the sword. There is an element of truth in that. The moment words are written down, they somehow acquire a power that can be quite overwhelming, as if they instantly become Fact. “I read somewhere…” “The newspaper say…” “Look, it’s written here in black and white…” Written words can beContinue reading “The Cold Dead Hand of the Written Word”

History, Legend, Myth and a Broken Obelisk

There have been many occasions when I have seen or heard something, a single image, that immediately inspired a potential story. There’s the ruined cottage two fields down from my garden. There’s the dark lane I used to walk along, coming home from Junior School, where all sorts of unpleasant people might be lurking. There’sContinue reading “History, Legend, Myth and a Broken Obelisk”

The Pheasants’ Revolt

I’ve always had a lot of birds in my garden. I’ve always had a pleasant view from the kitchen window, across a wooded valley to a quaintly derelict farmhouse. Then the quaintly derelict farmhouse was bought and the new owner set up a pheasant shoot. Come the autumn, local farmers gather to take pot-shots atContinue reading “The Pheasants’ Revolt”

Virtues, Vices and Heroics

True to my policy of always bringing Jane Austen into any post if I can, our Jane once suggested, when writing Emma, that she was creating a heroine whom no one would like except herself. Oddly, although many readers might find Emma’s snobbery rather ridiculous, they don’t mind her at all. The Austen heroine thatContinue reading “Virtues, Vices and Heroics”

Illustrious Ancestors

One of my ancestors was made a freeman of the borough of Pembroke. I know this because it’s recorded in his parish register. Now what I know about people being granted the freedom of the borough is that it is a significant honour reserved for those who have done something of great value to theContinue reading “Illustrious Ancestors”

A Word to the Wise

Nearly every writer I know uses Microsoft Word. I didn’t always use it. Not sure what it was I did use when I gave up on pen and ink and began writing on an Amstrad word processor (oh the joy of delete and paste), but since then I have always used Word. Hard not to,Continue reading “A Word to the Wise”