This is the version I rewrote after deciding against an earlier story (posted previously on here). It’s almost flash fiction, and I tried to throw in a double-twist at the end. Angela’s First Day Angela perched on the polyester-covered office chair and studied her desk. It was sparse and ill-considered; a drab keyboard, an RSI-inducing […]
Dear Sega, Sonic the Hedgehog was relevant back in 1992, NOT in 2012. Please refrain from flogging this spiky dead horse in any future games. Sincerely yours etc.
This exercise was to write about a girl called Angela on her first day in a new job. I didn’t submit this one as it didn’t really show Angela at all, only mentioned at the start and at the end. Plus, I wasn’t pleased with it, so rewrote it entirely. Interesting writing fact – Roald […]
Here’s a few “feature” decorations on my Christmas tree!
I was introduced as “the fat one” about 2 weeks back, by a friend who is/was the same build as me. I’ve never been fat, yet as I’ve got older, I’ve grown from a size 28 to a 34 waist. My shirts don’t look right on me, and I’ve started to walk around in loose-fitting […]
My parents decided to apply for an allotment a few years back. I followed suit, and was provisionally allocated a half-plot – suitable for a beginner – and so, armed with the key to the gates and the signed lease, I decided to go down there today. I don’t know the first thing about allotments, […]
One thing which most fictional writers should practise is observation. When in a public place, pick someone at random, then observe them – what they wear, how they are standing or talking, how they look and so on. Then, from what you’ve observed, give them a back story, or try to guess where they are […]
IMagine if your friends had organised a suprise for you. You walk into the room, the light go on and…? 500 words. To me, I winged this piece. It feels like I almost got this right, but the word constraint made me force a size 12 idea into a size 9 format. This was a […]
This is a piece describing being burgled, in about 500 words. I wasn’t a fan of this exercise; I’m quite “macro” in my view of the universe, whereas this piece was narrowing my focus onto the “micro” aspects of an event. However, this is something that I have noticed of late; my viewpoint. I read […]
This assignment shows a son trying to tactfully broach the subject about his mother moving into a home, with a word count of 250. The old women is loosely based upon my own grandmother, specifically the twiddling of the thumbs and the “can’t wait for me to die” line. She would twiddle her thumbs when […]
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