She stayed the winter, improving her hovel and hunting, collecting what was left of the nuts and berries, hazel mainly for the nuts, blackberries, haws, elderberries and rosehips. She grubbed up some tough root veg and found a stand of juruselum artichokes the only things that were due to be harvested and not over. There […]
The dream was there once more, the heat the flames, it was just one of the dreams but the singed smell was still in her nostrils. She awoke to scratchty cloth in many shades of brown, course and itchy, she was breathing in the straw dust of a stable floor. A weak watery sun was […]
Ok so I’ve decided I need an outline but first of all I’ve discovered that I need to plan the outline – decided whats going to be there as the actual structure of the book and then how many chapters etc… I’m planning on – before I can even begin the outline :/ I have […]
Today is the first day of NaNoWriMo at midnight after doing spoogy things with my little girl all evening and having done a stint of tidying I realised Nano had started and knew that there was nno way I would get to sleep without doing some writing. So I wrote 246 words of prologue and […]
The girl shivered and turned in her sleep, sweat pricked the skin of her pale forehead, she mummbled and turned as if on fire as if in fever. The dream was back huanting her, one of those real dreams that tugged at her waking mind from the recesses where she hide it. The dream involved […]
Eeek! Arg!!! I am not ready – not ready at all – eeek eek ek – of course this might be my problem with scifi stories – I’m never ready am I? I always get obsessed with researching the world and history and never write anything – well this time I have too! 30 days […]
I wither inside everytime I see the bueaty that was him – its there is a thousand faces – ever generation he is there – in personality, in body motion, in face and yet none are him. I look, befriend and cherish each I find but none are a perminate salve to the wound he […]
Ok so I know how The Punk becomes and survives being Queen Elizabeth the First of England but how do I get around the fact she has to die and be laid out etc… Well with some help from the Careys and a few others she manages to make a plaster bust/ hands etc… of […]
So the Punk is stuck as Princess Elizabeth – the inner court of nobles think she is a boy on the brink of becoming a man – so she is stuck pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman! And on top of that she doesn’t age! Three people know her truelly and […]
So this is what I have so far for the Elizabethan part of my story and I think I am actually starting to amass a plot! King Henry is in fear that he will not leave a male heir and so turns to the old concept of Bastard sons – this was a tradition ranging […]