Write-Place

Yesterday I spent some time considering whether to amalgamate this blog, with  maltbyblogger.com  and call it The WritePlace Is Maltbyblogger or some such thing but having slept on it I've decided that it wouldn't really work.  Actually,  I have had it sort of decided for me by a reader, now probably ex-reader, of maltbyblogger who has castigated me for using it for a political agenda. Now, apart from me not having any political "agenda" - I can't decide whether to sit down or stand up most days, never mind who to vote for  - I felt I had to refer him to the "About" page of the blog. Though I had almost forgotten myself, there it clearly states what my intentions were/are in making posts and the word "political" is mentioned. But so are the words "topical", "information", "discuss" and "news".  I think I am within my "rights" as a blogger to post anything related to any of those words and I t...

                                    Well, have to say my first reaction to the title of this article was to picture a rather unsavoury scenario of unclothed authors with notebooks, pens and laptops. The word 'laptop' conjures up all sorts of possible predicaments in this image – or maybe it’s just me. Anyway, the article in  Writers News  is nothing to do with nakedness as in baring one’s body, but more about baring one’s literary attempts, at the time of  inception. Author Silvia Hartmann will be using "Google Docs cloud-based office suite"  to let readers share her latest novel online as she types it. Followers will be able to access her writing progress using a public access web page which will go live at 9am on 12th September. Silvia says that the project is 'An amazing opportunity for me as an author to push the boundaries of the author/reader relati...

At the risk of boring my reader, I just wanted to say that I am on a 'pyjama theme' today - again. There's two reasons for this  1 I am wearing mine 2 I have been updating this blog (and attempting to change and update my website  Write-Place  to it's new domain  Write Place Now as my blogger/writer friends know, the process of unjumbling thoughts from your brain and transferring them to the keyboard in a format that others will understand, is not an easy task. It's difficult enough doing it in a way that you understand yourself. Hardly without you realising you are searching other websites, looking at today's TV listings, looking at what's trending on Twitter and checking Facebook to see if anyone's bothered to respond to your inane comments. I usually find myself 'phoning a friend' too. It's a bit like looking at photographs. You intend to just look at one or a few, but suddenly you are researching not only your own family history bu...

"Twins" - a story by me. Read it here, if you want to ! http://www.spookcity.blogspot.com