Squidge's Scribbles

I might have seemed a bit quiet on the Scribbles recently, but that doesn't mean that things aren't busy behind the scenes! To give ...

It looks as though Super Stories is going to be published a little later than we hoped, sometime in July instead of June...but... We have a ...

Delighted to announce that my short story, Cirque de la Vie, has been placed as a runner up in the Retreat West quarterly circus themed com...

I recently met up with old schoolfriend and fellow author, Mark R Brandon . Ever since we made contact again after 40-odd years, we've b...

Image from Flash Gordon Returns! My big blonde crush Friday July 31 2020, 12.01am, The Times Flash! Ah-aaah!  Yes, I think the film's ba...

I've been having an interesting conversation in a writing community about writing rules and quotes from famous writers that could be tak...

This conference, organised by Writing East Midlands in partnership with Lincoln University, should have happened last year - twice. I was b...

 In just the last week, I've seen pictures of two things that could have come straight from Tilda's world.  The first is this amazin...

When you read the next line, imagine you're playing a trumpet. Pom-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-paaaar! Delighted to let you know that I have publicat...

I've realised that I'm perhaps a rare breed - I'm a social writer.  That doesn't mean I like to write in a roomful of people...

 2020. The year no-one expected. The year where the only certainty was uncertainty.  We've been fortunate, Chez Squidge. Of course life ...

So in spite of my best laid plans, I haven't blogged for well over a month. I have my reasons... The bad news is that our cat, Timmy, pa...

 Goodness - HOW long since I wrote a blog post?!  Well, here's one just to bring you up to speed on what's been happening since the ...

As every author knows, you often end up with multiple versions of a novel's manuscript on your computer. Mine go something like this; Ve...

Wrote this for the 'Midsummer Madness' themed monthly competition in the Den of Writers. ..it was chosen as winner. (I get to set Ju...

No, I didn't know there was one either! But there is, led by First Story. You can find out more about it here  , but essentially it aims...

I was in two minds about posting this, because it deals with a rough time recently which resulted in a few issues around the publication of ...

So after almost 8 weeks of lockdown, the UK is beginning to open up. There are very different views on this, as you might imagine. Some wa...

As well as writing, I also quilt... The picture is of a quilt top I made entirely by hand a few years ago using 'hexies'. Y...

One thing I struggled to use at first for writing inspiration was Story Cubes. There are lots of different ways to use them - pick thr...