I had the day off work today; I spent probably too much of it playing Paper Mario, but I did do some sorting out of mess in my flat, and got a chapter or so of my book written (I edit as I write because I spot plot holes and continuity errors forming ( Read more... )

I managed a 7.36km walk tonight, so adding my 2.33 km walk this morning, I managed to add an extra 9.69 km for Tour de Lockdown, with the caveat that my Smart Watch and Strava seem to measure distance slightly differently when the only difference being that ( Read more... )

Picture from another exploratory walk, close to where I went last Monday morning. I don't think I'd make that path a regular "haunt" because the ground is quite uneven.


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Following on from the dream I related yesterday, I made a start at my horror novelette. This is what I've done so far ( Read more... )

Last night's dream - at least the end - felt like it could be the concept for a short horror story ( Read more... )

I was on a training course today; of course, when I'm in a hurry often things go wrong and when I got to the station, I found the train was delayed due to a "person taken ill"; it was being held two stations away ( Read more... )

Random humourous (I hope) short story I came up with this morning; it's a bit absurd in places but hopefully enjoyable enough. When I have more time I'll clean it up a bit (mostly the end ( Read more... )

I'll need to clean it up a bit, but this bit has one of the butchers approaching Humphrey to give him information. My only concern about this is whether him just offering his spare bed to this guy he barely knows is likely, but my opinion is that's he's quite a nice guy, and that he can probably find the other guy (Simon) a bed in a YMCA at some ( Read more... )

It involves a town getting infected with a disease caused by bacteria from dodgy meat getting spread when a butcher does not wash his hands properly; basically, it gets on money, and gets transferred to other shops ( Read more... )

The following text is just a few spec paragraphs about the novel that I still mostly have writer's block on. I know it will involve the spread of some contagious disease but I have to decide what happens next and make it original, and make sure I do plenty of research ( Read more... )