Fi Phillips

This month I have a writing prompt for you, or rather two writing prompts. Use either or both, it's up to you. Here they are. and Images courtesy of: Tim Foster on Unsplash sharonshuping0 on Pixabay

Spring is sprung de grass is riz I wonder where de boidies iz It's true! Spring is finally upon us. The grass is going rampant in our garden. However, the noisy pigeons that sit on the roof of our house and coo loudly first thing on a morning leave me in no doubt where de blummin' boidies iz. Facebook is in the news again (when isn't Facebook in the news?) about the Cambridge Analytica 'situation' but I'm more interested in how Facebook's algorithm changes will affect my page's visibility. Fauzia Burke discusses just this topic on the Writers Digest website in How Upcoming Facebook Updates Will Impact Authors . I've also come across a brilliant article on Three Different Ways to Approach Blogging as a Novelist from Aliventures. Finally, I've a video for you from the Creative Penn on how to find time to write. Enjoy the Spring.

How did you come to be writing your book? What inspired your story? I was speaking to a friend recently, someone I've known since I was a child, and although our paths have parted, we've always held faith with one truth in our lives - we are writers. Recently, she started to write a novel. We've discussed its development over the phone and one thing became clear the more we talked - the inspiration for her novel is linked back to the loss of a well loved individual in her life, not necessarily the loss itself but the place in her mind and her younger life that the experience has led her to remember. The result is that she has an inspiring story to tell to an agent or a publisher about how her novel came about when she decides to seek publication, with a defined theme too. That got me thinking about my own novel and the more I thought about it, the more I realised that I don't have that same inspirational clarity. I honesty can't tell you what inspired me t...

This is how March started where I live - snow. My dog loved it. My teens loved it (and the resulting days off school). Being self employed at home, it wasn't quite so popular with me. Theoretically, as a home worker the weather shouldn't affect me but with the teens home two days out of the last week, my dog constantly nagging to go out so she could roll in the snow (and then gift it to the rest of the house by shaking herself over anyone nearby and jumping on the sofas), and the fact that our unfinished house isn't the easiest to keep warm, I was a tad disturbed and disgruntled by the plentiful supply of snow. Having said that, the snow is almost gone and today is grey and drizzly. Maybe the snow wasn't so bad after all. This month, I launched the website for my new copy and content writing (with a side order of social media) business. You can find the website here . I'm also on Facebook and Twitter , and posted my first introductory blog post on the day...