Almost two months into Lockdown and Chip wants to know why there's no fish in our fresh vegetables delivery. The rest of us are doing...

31.587 recorded COVID-19 deaths in the UK so far, and 215,260 confirmed cases, but the actual number might be much higher due to lack of...

We've had the odd meltdown this week, inevitable perhaps with two teenagers stuck in the same house as us. But on the plus side, I've...

With added vitamin D. My daughter and I went for our daily walk together and wandered across our local beach. Social distancing was not a...

I have to admit, I've been struggling the past few days. In spite of my meds I've been feeling anxious and reverted to focusing on the...

I had to go out to the supermarket and pharmacist a couple of times this week. Social distancing is a strange dance and some people seem...

I spent the morning working on the penultimate assignment for the creative writing course. My copies of The Venus Virus arrived, and I...

Disclaimer - I don't live alone, so I am not completely isolated. My elder daughter has returned after her university shut it doors. I...

What would our vital organs say if they had voices, and how would we react if we overheard their complaints? Colourless Green Ideas Sleep...

I missed a few weeks of blog updates because of a hectic schedule of a book release, my daughter’s birthday and submitting assignments...

This week we were learning about rhetoric and style. It’s a subject that fascinates me so I have done some wider reading, a summary of...

Horror is my comfort blanket. I have lived with depression since my teens. I don’t fit comfortably in this world of ours. Isolation and...

At this point we left drama and learned how to apply the techniques from stage play, radio play and film to pieces of fiction. Exercises...

Happy Yule (or whatever holiday you celebrate). 2019 has been a strange and difficult year for many of us. The world feels like a story...

This week’s subject was film structure. We learned how films are broken down into acts, which can be broken down into scenes, which can...

This week’s subject was film making and scripts. It’s been a tough week for me. My elderly cat went missing for a day and a half. He’s...

This week’s subject was radio drama. We studied a radio play – Smooth Apparatus and how sound effects might be weaponised in drama. The...

This week’s subject was staging plays. We were reminded this week that conflict is essential in plays (otherwise the audience will be...

This week’s subject was revealing information in drama. We looked at subtext and exposition. Subtext is the “hidden meaning that lies...

This week we moved from prose to scripts and looked at the craft of the playwright. I received my marked assignment from weeks 1 – 4....