My thoughts about books, writing, life and so many other things….Judy Leigh/ Elena Collins.
The sun’s out. It’s got me thinking. I’m spending too much time indoors at the computer. Isolation and summer sunshine don’t go together. I need to drag myself away from the next novel. But it’s a writer’s lot, hunched at the desk, eyes on the screen, typing just one more line, just one more chapter. …
Continue reading It’s so easy to slip into the antisocial writer stereotype …
I decided to have a couple of weeks away from writing. It was a simple idea - it was summer time, so I'd write nothing, just let the summer shine in through the mind’s window and the brain bask in the warmth. After all, I have three new novels more or less completed – maybe …
Continue reading Sometimes what’s outside affects what’s inside: on nature and inspiration
A while ago I wrote a scary story, Gone Away. This week, actor Julie Mullen read it on the radio. It is such a privilege to have my work featured on The Word Cafe, SoundArt Radio. Julie is a talent: actor, poet, singer, painter, she is the compere and organiser of workshops and Word Cafe …
Continue reading Gone Away: my scary story read by Julie on the radio
That quintessence of dust 