I am in awe of people like Lizzie Ludlow. I met her at the Victorian Memories conference in September (seems so long ago, how strange!) and was impressed by the knowledge she had and her self-assurance. While reading her paper she was admittedly one of the more nervous, stumbling slightly over her words and eye […]

I wrote a shade over 1000 words today, so work well done in my opinion. It’s a novel I started last year, and have picked up again - I reread it over a couple of days and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was in fact not at all bad, and would probably not […]