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MDWC – January 2016


This week, Liberty and I decided to return to our local Writer's Club after a very extended break. (With the exception of the Christmas meals, we turned up for those 😉) I haven't done any writing outside of this blog for probably well over a year now and I decided I'd like to try getting… Continue reading MDWC – January 2016

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I Am Tori, Defeater Of Socks.


It was Writer's Club at my local library last night and we were looking at the poem 'I am Taliesin' by the infamous and legendary bard of the same name (he was real but his story is interwoven with the magic of the Arthurian legends). It is a poem of self-pride and boastfulness and is… Continue reading I Am Tori, Defeater Of Socks.

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#NaPoWriMo – The Final Day


April has been a busy old month with the London Marathon, Christenings and Caius was away with work for a lot of it. Through it all I have kept up with writing a poem a day (more or less, I wrote a couple late) and one or two of them are even okay! I do… Continue reading #NaPoWriMo – The Final Day

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Unpacking ~ A #NaPoWriMo Poem


I wrote this yesterday (25th April) after spending a lot of the day sorting through bags and boxes of stuff from when I was 16 through university and up to breaking up with the Small's father. It was a surreal kind of day with lots of emotions floating around and both happy and sad memories… Continue reading Unpacking ~ A #NaPoWriMo Poem

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#NaPoWriMo meets the London Marathon (An Excuse.)


I have a confession to make... I didn't write any poems this weekend. I would claim that I didn't totally forget, but that would be a total lie because I did. But I totally forgot having given myself prior permission and promising myself that I would catch up (which I have). You see it was… Continue reading #NaPoWriMo meets the London Marathon (An Excuse.)