Last on the card – a bean in April!
May 1, 2022
Post the last photo you took in April – the latest round of the monthly challenge from bushboy.
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Maria Donovan is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She won first prize for Flash Fiction in the Bridport Prize 2019. Her published works include a short story collection: 'Pumping Up Napoleon' and a debut novel, 'The Chicken Soup Murder', which was shortlisted for The International Rubery Book Awards and a finalist for the Dundee International Book Prize.
Words and Washi
April 29, 2022
In ‘Quilt’, an exhibition appearing at the University of South Wales, two-hundred-year-old letters written on Washi – Japanese paper – are layered into works of art. We were asked to send our own brief words to appear alongside.
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Sharing a post! ‘Levels of Editing’ by Cate Whittle via Thoughts Become Words
April 8, 2022
Here’s a chance to check whether your manuscript really is ‘submission ready’. Thanks to Gretchen of ‘Thoughts become Words’ for letting me share her original post with guest Cate Whittle on: ‘Sending Your Book Baby Out Into The World’.
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Last on the card
April 1, 2022
Post the last photo you took in March – the latest round of the monthly challenge from bushboy. I got this one past the censor!
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Winter into Spring
March 25, 2022
Snapshots of the Moon and Dorset with snippets from the diary at what turns out to be a difficult time.
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Wordless Wednesday
March 16, 2022
Wise and Weird 22/2/2022
February 21, 2022
Reblogging this repost from our friend in Australia just ahead of Two’s Day because I enjoyed it so much. It’s all there (but, sadly, Stephen Hawking is now deceased).
♦ What if my dog only brings back the ball because he thinks I like throwing it? ♦ Your future self is watching you right now through memories. ♦ If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous? ♦ Which letter is silent in the word “Scent,” the S or […]
Wise and Weird 22/2/2022
Filling in the blanks
February 18, 2022
An old way of writing yields new work; I feel a connection to a dear lost friend through her gift of a pen.
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12 from 21
January 1, 2022
Odd looking back through a year in pictures, to see them in a mass stretching back ‘to this time last year’. I picked 12 of my nature photos – it seems I like shadows, odd angles and the sea.
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Friday flash – People of the Village
December 17, 2021
The text of my one-page story – a complement (and a compliment) to Daniel Trivedy’s artwork ‘Welsh Emergency Blanket’.
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