Squidge's Scribbles

I realised I haven't written much about writing recently. You can thank CV-19 and my current fixation on knitting socks for that! How...

The last few days, I've been on retreat - writing retreat. A couple of ex-Cloudie friends, Moira (aka Maddie Please - The Summer of S...

Late posting this - life seems to be running away with me rather at the moment, but I'm working on the view that it's better late th...

This is just a quick update to let you know where I'm doing some workshops in the near future; The first will be part of the Loogabaro...

A short while ago, I posted a brief mention of my new web-based writing community - Den of Writers - following the demise of the wonderful ...

This week was our monthly NIBS meeting, and it was great. I love being the facilitator for this group, because it gives me a chance to trawl...

We're lucky enough to have some poets in NIBS, our writing group. I'm always in awe of people who can write poetry - especially the ...

We had a full house for NIBS this week, our first meeting of 2018! So it seemed only appropriate to have a theme of 'First' for the...

Last night, I did an author talk - not at a school, but to  the local Trefoil Guild . I was a guider with the Guide Association for twenty...

Our most recent meeting was a little thinner for numbers (holiday time!) but was no less rich in material created because of it. So for your...

Our April meeting had a Spring theme to it. Our warm up was an Eggs-traordinary piece, where we imagined we had an egg - but WHAT would ha...

I've an excuse for being a bit quiet on the blog recently - the next round of edits arrived for Kingstone , so I've been working thr...

Last night, we had our monthly NIBS meeting. I chose to take the paint sample cards again as we'd had fun with them in the past and afte...

At our recent NIBS meeting, we took the theme of 'New'. We didn't do New Year Resolutions, but we kicked off by writing down w...

So the Scribbles have been a little quiet in the last two weeks as I've been recovering from the chest infection. Thank goodness, I...

One of the writing prompts I've found that's quite useful if you want to kick start a writing session, is the 7x7x7 prompt. Basica...

Wednesday last was NIBS: the Nanpantan Improving Body of Scribblers. We meet monthly, and our theme this month was 'Three Little Words....