The gorgeous illustration for Cat Café #37 in this week's People's Friend.

Thank you so much for all your hard work everyone at @alcs.co.uk. I am beyond thrilled with my statement this year ❤️

Thrilled to have been asked to be The People's Friend Writer Of The Week ❤️ www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/fiction/meet...

Dogs, this time. Not cats. LOOK at those wee faces ❤️ My story, Love Unleashed, is in the current issue of The People's Friend - OUT TODAY.

Pretty much.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote 100+ short stories. In 1999, he revealed the secret to writing a good one. Here are his 8 rules: 1. Don't waste your reader's time. 2. Give the reader a character to root for. 3. Every character should want something. Even if it's only a glass of water. (Cont)

Thank you PLR UK and everyone who works at, and/or frequents their local library. Thrilled to bits with my statement today. x

Dear library users – if your friends have published books, you'll be doing them a huge favour if you borrow those books when you see them, and request them when you can't. I have books in the library system and would be delighted if you read one (or more!)

Read this for o' grade. More four and a half decades later I still think of it and refer to it often.

With Maxine distracted by Christmas and new neighbours, someone has managed to escape from the Cat Cafe... Thrilled that my story is in the gorgeous first double festive issue of The People's Friend - out today ❤

Ruining #TOTP for BigJD by singing along to Tina Turner. #FavouriteHobby

A stolen racoon from elsewhere on the net ❤️

If you find yourself wondering if a new book will solve all your problems today, the answer is yes

Today’s poem is called ‘Please Bear in Mind’.

Bumped into a film set in #Glasgow today. Massive road closures in the city centre. Didn't have the nerve to ask the guys what they were filming.

#WritingTip: You can always fix bad pages. You can’t fix no pages. Write. Just write.

Mr Darcy's shirt at Bankfield Museum earlier this year. Totally worth the journey ❤️

Bye bye #BBCDoctors. Going to miss this wee gem of a show.

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New writing project. 5k words in. 1 character with 3 different names - not as a plot device. This is why 2nd drafts matter.