How to worm a cat, Flash Fiction and other ways to tackle Perfectionism.

Welcome to my stop on the Rough Writers Tour Around the World as we launch the first flash fiction anthology from the Carrot Ranch on-line literary community. If you’re new here, you might be wondering why a memoir writer is peddling flash fiction? And we’ll get onto that,

Writer Driven by Distraction

Some days I’m not even as sharp as Dougal on Father Ted and as my attention wanders, as I lose my keys, glasses, train of thought, I wonder whether to accept it as simple signs of middle-aging..

Resolutions, Routine and Rebellion

Forgive me reader, for it is more than three weeks since my last confession blog and the pressure to produce something is growing, despite a promise to be kind to myself and another pact I made silently – not to bore you with drivalous self-obsessed rantings. Ah, well..

Solving the Problem of Goals and Targets (Part 1)

When I first met my publisher, he casually enquired how many words I was writing. That week I’d written around 6,000 words.

“Great! At that rate, you could have a first draft finished in 12 weeks!”

Well, yes I could! And that sudden