Swan family | #writephoto Flash Non-fiction
A swan family! How opportune that KL Caley has picked this picture for the writephoto this week. It enables me to give a little taste of my holiday in the form of a non-fiction piece for a change. It’s...
View ArticleWell (well, well) | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Well – the writephoto prompt for today – always makes me think of that old joke: ‘well, well, well.’ ‘Yes, three deep holes in the ground.’ Thanks to KL Caley at New2Writing.com we have an intriguing...
View ArticleBucket | #writephoto Flash Fiction
A bucket on a beach. Just the right thing for a bank holiday. I hope you enjoyed the Jubilee weekend, UK folks. I had a craft fair on Saturday in the middle of the New Forest. Despite the forecast...
View ArticleThe Priory | writephoto Flash Fiction
The Priory is the beautiful setting for this week’s #writephoto from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. Several thoughts came to mind, including “what’s the difference between a Priory, a Friary and an...
View ArticleMushrooms | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Mushrooms. My favourite food, well, apart from cheese. It took me about ten seconds to think of this one once I sat down to write. Thank you KL Caley for today’s wonderful #writephoto prompt. It’s just...
View ArticleSeahorse | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Seahorse – what a great picture for our #writephoto prompt from K L Caley today. I’m still having trouble getting my writing brain into gear, but just putting one word after the other seems to work. I...
View ArticleRibbit! | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Ribbit! was a fantastic prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com for this week’s #writephoto. Having clarified that it was a frog and a toad pictured in the pond, I wandered off, thinking. And...
View ArticleSolitude | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Solitude. I had no idea what I was going to write for this prompt from KL Caley at New2writing.com. After I set up the post I finished reading one book and started on Femina, which I’m reviewing at the...
View ArticleChapel | #writephoto Flash Fiction
A chapel, built of stone, in an area of broken down ruins, perhaps. That’s the photoprompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com for #writephoto this week. I enjoyed developing this idea. It’s amazing what...
View ArticleFledgling and Swan | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Fledgling. I always dither about words with -dg- combined with -ling when writing them. Some surnames and placenames have an e, some don’t. Why? Swan. That’s this week’s #writephoto prompt from KL...
View ArticleMeeting | #writephoto Flash Fiction
A meeting place in the woods. I had a few ideas as soon as I saw the #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com on Thursday afternoon. That was before the world changed fundamentally, for...
View ArticleThe Red Door | #writephoto Flash Fiction
The red door. I’ve always thought red a great colour for a front door, although I’ve never used it. This is the prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com for this week’s #writephoto. I’m posting this 870...
View ArticleFarming | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Farming. That is a really difficult prompt this week from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. Of course, my colleagues will come up with brilliant takes on the idea. People I meet at craft fairs ask where my...
View ArticleTower | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Tower, and a lovely one, is the #writephoto prompt for this week from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. It’s the second tower we’ve had, but it’s very different from the last, which starred Prince Engineer...
View ArticleWoodland | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Woodland is this week’s writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. I did hear someone say they thought this a less-than-inspiring picture, but I delved into the depths of those watery shadows...
View ArticleCemetery | #writephoto Flash Fiction
It’s a nice cemetery. Not all ghoulish, and crusty crooked headstones. Hang on, I haven’t started the fiction yet. This is today’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2writing.com, coming in at just...
View ArticleGargoyle | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Gargoyle: one of my favourite architectural features. I took many photos of them at Norwich RC Cathedral when I went there for a conference once and we had a ‘special’ tour, including the roof. But...
View ArticleFog | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Fog and Halloween. I can see the way KL Caley’s mind is working for the week’s #writephoto prompt at New2Writing.com. I have a series of features I’ve written in the past, featuring the guinea pigs as...
View ArticleThe Great Cake Heist | #writephoto Flash Fiction
I chose cake over tractor for this week’s #writephoto. Is that cheating? I mean, we did a tractor story a couple of weeks back, so another tractor prompt was a bit much. Sorry KL Caley at...
View ArticleUpsizing | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Upsizing – although not so much inspired by the picture as the word from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. Last week I revisited a house I had really liked, but was sold before I’d sold mine. I just wanted...
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