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: July 2017
Daily prompt: Does it really matter?
DAILY PROMPT Bumble Until I was about 17, I appeared to have a purpose in life. Academic achievement. Since that’s been off the board – chiefly, in retrospect, because I had minus zero interest in academic achievement and managed to … Continue reading
Daily prompt: Bury the chaplain?
DAILY PROMPT Bury Now there’s a cheery little word! And here was me all set to be a veritable ray of sunshine only to be stymied by the WP moving finger, which having writ, has no doubt moved on to … Continue reading
Daily prompt: Quinoa
DAILY PROMPT Grit Quinoa looks gritty. Don’t know whether it is. Don’t care. Don’t plan on finding out. Course it probably isn’t. Gritty. What with being the latest superfood and all. You can con all of the people some of … Continue reading
Daily prompt: Yay, way to go!
DAILY PROMPT Savage We humans are very good at ‘savage’. Not content with the physical kind – although there’s still more than enough of that around – we have gone on to develop emotional, social and financial savagery into fine … Continue reading
Daily prompt: I’ll keep my ballpoint, thanks
DAILY PROMPT Quill Whenever I see auctioneers waxing lyrical about antique inkstands, I’m always slightly bemused. I know auctioneers are paid to wax lyrical about everything, and I know antique inkstands can be things of beauty in themselves. But I … Continue reading
Daily prompt: A tribute to political incorrectness
DAILY PROMPT Tether A long time ago when my children were small, you could get (and many did) a child’s harness with a lead attached, to tether your child to you (or to the pram of an even smaller child … Continue reading
Daily prompt: Not glamorous, but interesting
DAILY PROMPT Pluck My immediate reaction to ‘pluck’ is plucking chooks. Nothing beautiful, uplifting or spiritual about that, perhaps indicative of my plebeian soul. But nonetheless I do remember those chook-plucking sessions with fondness, possibly enhanced by the fact that … Continue reading
Daily prompt: How about something a bit more peaceful?
DAILY PROMPT Sail First we had scamper, then dash, and now we’ve got sail – an improvement as it involves less frenetic activity, but not something that inspires me to heights of creativity, even assuming I was familiar with creative … Continue reading
Daily prompt: Which sort?
DAILY PROMPT Dash I like a bit of a dash – spray them around, in fact, like other people’s apostrophes: use them for colons and semi-colons because really, who cares? Or possibly even knows anymore… I start sentences with ands … Continue reading
Daily prompt: …or not…
DAILY PROMPT… Scamper I never was much of a scamperer. More of a lumberer, me. Or a sitter and thinker, which doesn’t do much for the physical scamper muscles. Good for the mental ones, though. Or bad, depending on the … Continue reading
