Recent content by Richard Wilkes

Well done! Great fun your entry - enjoyed it hugely. Recently read Ewan Morrison's 'Close Your Eyes' - very interesting writer and may well sample NINA X too.

Great dog! Welcome

Wow - that's impressive. (Surely she can't be 50! She looks not a lot older than my 16 yr old daughter!)

That's great! Many congratulations. Flashing (strictly the literary variety) is great fun - a really good creative work-out - and obviously in your case you've produced something really good. Impressive!

Have a great time. Hope it works for you. I'm jealous of the concentrated time you'll be able to spend on your writing. As for husbands? - they're trouble. Stick to your hobby, they don't argue with you.

Welcome!

Arvon have a good reputation and good tutors. I've thought about it myself but it is a bit of money to shell out. If you can get a decent discount (many congrats on the prize) then I'd go for it - could be useful. A niece of mine went on a week's course (she has a wealthy husband!) and found it...

I've read three of his books - the latest being The Children Act. Extremely successful writer but doesn't do it for me. I was going to write a longer post but am slightly worried about negative reviews being 'out there' for everyone to see. I wasn't going to be rude but this is public isn't it?

Welcome Eva. My mother was born in Bloxwich - just up the road from Walsall. Hope you enjoy Litopia - what sort of stuff are you writing?

Maybe my dogs have been rolling in badger poo all this time. I'd assumed it was fox poo. But whatever it is - it is a revolting smell (but not to a dog, obviously). We were told that dogs would grow out of it, but they are 9 and 6 and still it goes on - with the older one displaying a particular...

Welcome Jimi!

Welcome. I had a Greek friend who, at one time, had a girlfriend called Iphigenia. I always thought it was not the most appropriate name - given what happens to the original. And she was crazy (the modern one) and very unhappy. Don't know if her mother was called Klytaimestra, but her dad was...

Welcome Rick! I've been here about 6/7 months now and it's a really useful resource to have. Hope it works for you. I would like to make more use of it but life makes demands ...

Hi Jackie - welcome! (I share your guilty secret - I too like to use pen and paper to scribble, jot down ideas, play around with a story, etc)

I need a geography lesson: where are the Apuan Alps and where is the Tyrrhenian Sea? They sound like a wonderful Shakesperean concoction (but I'm sure they exist). I live between the M25 motorway and the London Underground railway which doesn't quite have the same ring, but inspiration can come...