About me
I'm a freelance writer - fiction, nonfiction and anything else that happens to tango its way through my mind. That's for me, and I've won a competition or two, and been published in a range of media. To keep the wolf from the door, I also edit, proofread and write for other people. Love it all. Aren't I lucky?
Six Weeks in Summer – Helen Meikle. Available on Smashwords and Kindle
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Daily prompt: Nnnah…
DAILY PROMPT Perfume I’ve never had much to do with perfume. Always felt stupid when I wore it: like a sow’s ear trying to be a silk purse. In fact that applied to anything that might smack even vaguely of … Continue reading
Daily prompt: Well how about that!
DAILY PROMPT Knackered Now this is a good word! Not exactly onomatopoeic, but it does have a satisfying thud that speaks of ‘let me collapse on the couch’, and historic overtones of worn out old horses, entirely appropriate to its … Continue reading
Daily prompt: How to write a proper limerick
DAILY PROMPT Roots I thought about this prompt for quite a while: the roots of humanity and what a mess we’re making of it all by being selfish, greedy bastards for whom ‘responsibility’ has become a dirty word. And it … Continue reading
Daily prompt: Not something that gives me sleepless nights
DAILY PROMPT Gray Both my parents were grey-haired for as long as I remember. Perhaps that’s why when I started going grey it didn’t bother me. Or perhaps it’s because I had so many other things on my mind at … Continue reading
Daily prompt: That thing I never had much of
DAILY PROMPT Zip I was never the sort of kid who zipped around the neighbourhood full of energy and joie-de-vie. Not that there was a neighbourhood in the accepted sense. We lived on a corner with a school on one … Continue reading
Daily prompt: What you think when you don’t have to worry about ratings
DAILY PROMPT Avid Pore ole Donny, yet again the victim of fake news. All those media bottom feeders scrabbling avidly through the polls and coming up with lies, damned lies and statistics. But it’s all OK, really, because he knows … Continue reading
Daily prompt: Why I will never write The Great Australian Novel
DAILY PROMPT Opaque All I ever really wanted to do from a very early age was write, and by the time I left school, I hadn’t changed my mind. But this was a very long time ago when children still … Continue reading
Daily prompt: The end result
DAILY PROMPT Climbing I guess Easter’s as good a time as any other for blowing ourselves out of existence. A nice irony you might say, if you were so inclined – that Christ died for our sins and rose again to … Continue reading
Daily prompt: I wish people wouldn’t mess with the language
DAILY PROMPT Measure The first thing that occurred to me when I saw today’s prompt was ‘the measure of a man’. I like that thought, however clichéd it may be. There’s substance to it. The possibility for exploration – through … Continue reading
Daily prompt: So sweet!
DAILY PROMPT Heal I should be able to think up something really clever here, shouldn’t I. Like How I Healed Myself and Found Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden, or The Healing Power of Love (or Dandelion Tea). But … Continue reading
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