I'm sure you know that I really want to be a writer and it's something that I want to take seriously.  To do that I have to move on and do some things that perhaps seems a little heartless.  I've done one of them this week - my friend Ali has shunted everything from this blog - all 2700+ posts over to Word Press.  It's slightly chaotic, there's no ( Read more... )

This morning I've been combining the Bible and the Russell T Davies years of Doctor Who

Extract:

The thing is, is if you know anything about Doctor Who since the 2005 re-boot and it’s time being helmed by Russell T Davies; then you’ll know what I’m talking about. Russell T Davies knew the story he wanted to tell, the message he wanted to get over ( Read more... )

I may not have been around much on Livejournal, but I've been working on my story this week and Chapter five of Aurora has now been posted over at FanFiction.Net.

A Halloween party, a vampire and a bottle of vodka. How out of control can things get...?

I'd be really gratful of any feedback you can give.

http://www.fanfiction.net/~racheljlewis

AFK?
Away from Keyboard?
What is that?

I have no idea where all the time goes. I can't believe it's Monday.  The year is zipping by and it's July already, how did *that* happen?

The truth is I am badly and gloriously sidetracked by writing.  Sadly for everyone around me, it's as bad as it was last November when my life got completely subsumed by ( Read more... )

Well, if you're going to write a story you might as well let people read it!

Those people who have read Aurora so far have been very kind and given me some encouragement to continue, so I'm going to see this through and write the whole damn thing!

I've signed up to FanFiction.Net to let as many people as possible have the opportunity to read it.  But ( Read more... )

I'm pretty much convinced that the world spins faster than it did; or that there are fewer hours in the day. Maybe the modern minute is shorter than it used to be (much like a Twix), and seconds have been subtly downgraded to nanoseconds. Either way my life is flashing by at a dizzying rate of knots and I'm not entirely sure I can keep up. At this ( Read more... )

Good news this morning from Lewis Lodge!

I've finally worked out the answer to one of the 'big ticket' questions of life.  It's up there with Does God exist? (Yes :-P), what am I doing here? (Go back downstairs and see if you can remember) and just what does happen to all those socks that mysteriously disappear in the wash?

Sadly, the sock question ( Read more... )

After spending last night at the Albion writer's group listening to everyone talk about what they're doing, I inevitably get fired-up and start wanting to forge ahead with my own writing.

And then I get home... I sleep on it... And I wake up in the morning having had a reality check.

Where my heart may wish to soar off into the heights of what I ( Read more... )

After all the excitement of yesterday, and let's face it, there aren't many days in my life that include a phone call, asking if I'm available to do Breakfast TV the following morning;  it feels quite nice to wake up and have an uninterrupted day of normality stretching in front of me.  After three days off (Monday was a public holiday in the UK), ( Read more... )

If anyone has read Breaking Dawn and would like to read the first three chapters of something I'm writing that takes the story on from there, please send me a message with your email address and I'll send it over to you.

If I'm ever to be a writer, I've got to ask people to let me know if I can tell a story.

Scary, scary...