From this writing prompt. I catch the bus for fifty minutes and Luke's there waiting at the terminal when we pull in. 'You're late,' he says, like it's my fault, and I tell him I'm sorry but he just shrugs and says, 'Means we'll only have
Hello! Some folk and I were talking on my Facebook page about flash fiction, and how it is super fun but can be hard to get started. So, to (hopefully) help your writing brain warm up, I’m going to put up a weekly writing prompt. There’s no pressure to
I've never been much of an editor. My best guess is that the kind of writing I do is that "just throw your guts at the page" type that can be difficult to revisit. There have been times I've written things and thought "Well, that
What I want to write about is being a parent with a mental illness. Predictably, because I am a writer who is a parent with a mental illness, who often writes about parenting and also mental illness. And predictably, because parents with mental illness are
Hello! Some folk and I were talking on my Facebook page about flash fiction, and how it is super fun but can be hard to get started. So, to (hopefully) help your writing brain warm up, I’m going to put up a weekly writing prompt. There’s no pressure to
I am in the grip of a wordlessness that is as profound as it is terrifying. The fear of failure is compelling. I am expecting to be able to pick up a brand new book, with barely a skeleton outline, and execute it in a
(From this writing prompt) After school mum took us to the train station and we sat on the bench to wait. The backs of my legs were burning on the metal because my shorts didn't cover them anymore, but I was pretty tough so I just
Hello! Some folk and I were talking on my Facebook page about flash fiction, and how it is super fun but can be hard to get started. So, to (hopefully) help your writing brain warm up, I’m going to put up a weekly writing prompt. There’s no pressure to
Boyd Anderson's first book, AMBER ROAD, was set in Singapore in the 1940s and told a love story to the backdrop of war. Boyd Anderson's second book, THE HEART RADICAL, is set in Malaysia in the 1950s and tells a love story to the backdrop
Hello! Some folk and I were talking on my Facebook page about flash fiction, and how super fun it is, but how it can be hard to get started. Ergo, I'm going to put up a weekly writing prompt. There's no pressure to share what you
My finished manuscript is with my agent, which is a weird thing to say. An exciting thing too, obviously. One of those things I would have waited my whole life to be able to say, had I known as a child that there was such