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
Tag Archives: DPchallenge
Echoes
Writing Challenge Find a Muse in the Masters Write a new piece using Nighthawks by Edward Hopper as your inspiration. Wynyard Station at night. The shops on the concourse are closed, the flower sellers gone. Even its echoes are hostile, … Continue reading
Weekly challenge: Discarding the black jellybeans
Writing Challenge Memoir Madness In this week’s writing challenge, mine your memory and write a memoir. Memories fall into three categories, it seems to me: the good, the bad and the ugly… You know the ones I mean: the evil, … Continue reading
Messages from the gods
Writing Challenge Leftovers For this week’s writing challenge, shake the dust off something — a clothing item, a post draft, a toy — you haven’t touched in ages, but can’t bring yourself to throw away. Do you ever get the … Continue reading
Weekly challenge: It’s all as inspiring as a cracked bell
So I’m sitting here feeling about as uninspired as it’s possible to be without lapsing into catatonia, and you’re asking what inspires me. All I can see when I look around is death, doom, disaster, mismanagement, corruption, bomb strikes, football … Continue reading
Weekly writing challenge: Writing because…
I write because that’s what I do. I’ve never seen it as wildly romantic or wondrously special. It’s just what I do: part of me, like being tall and having dark hair. Or breathing, I suppose. Perhaps that’s because I’ve … Continue reading
Weekly challenge: Imagining anorexia
WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: LEAVE YOUR SHOES AT THE DOOR Silence. We sit staring at each other, I blank as the wall behind his head, he contemplating lunch, perhaps; his next holiday, the chance of a round of golf on Sunday. … Continue reading
Weekly challenge day 7: Holiday’s end
WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: LUNCH POSTS It’s raining. Weeping? School goes back tomorrow… Homesickness and the smell of wet gabardine, the dining hall vast and stuffy, dank and alien. The clank of two hundred spoons wielded by strangers eating cornflakes… I’d … Continue reading
Weekly challenge day 6: Bye-bye tourists
WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: LUNCH POSTS The main street has hit the snooze button: no queues at the bakery, no line-up at the hole in the wall. They’ve all hopped in their cars and taken off, back to their busy reality. … Continue reading
Weekly challenge day 5: Night
WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: LUNCH POSTS The moon is getting old. Shrinking, like me. It’s got a grin and a buzz cut, tonight, and sticky-out ears… Or maybe that’s my cataracts adding quirky flourishes to the everyday. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/weekly-writing-challenge-lunch-posts/
Weekly challenge day 4: Thinks…
WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: LUNCH POSTS Jakeb and Lukas are on duty today. Did their mums and dads spell it differently to make them special? When really, they’re special anyway by definition, and sometimes gilding the lily only makes for confusion. … Continue reading
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