Don’t outline as such. The idea of what I want the story to cover will form in my mind and then I will start writing with only a vague idea of where the story will go. The story can take anywhere from ten minutes to five years write. Once I have finished it I will leave it a few days then return to it and re-read it looking for missing words and general structure and flow. After this I slowly go through it correcting grammar and spelling mistakes, sometimes make other changes as well. Again once finished I will leave it a couple of days before returning and reading it through to see if I can make any improvements before uploading to lush.

In my long running series “Another Love” I have a list of characters that have appeared in the various chapters and who they are based on in life just to keep me straight especially if I plan to bring them back in another chapter.

Not on New Years Eve as my wife was on shift. We made up for it when she got home this morning.

Not to a complete stranger but my wife and I regularly send photos to one another.

I have not been active on Lush for a while but have numerous projects on the go at the moment.

Currently have four parts of my long running series written but in need of editing with another two parts outlined. This series is easy as so much of it is autobiographical and has become more so as the series has developed.

Have a half written chapter to my Hotel series which got off to a great start but has faltered as have six other stories all of which I return to every now and again write maybe one or two hundred words and then abandon for a few months. The longest running of these is from an idea I had about twenty years ago but for various reasons I have never finished. Currently sits at about twenty thousand words and is the one I think about the most but hardly every write anything for.

Mince pie with some cream

23 years

A meringue cream cake.

Wednesday evening on a romantic get away