The Pen Wrangler

I'm not doing well in the writing competition scene. I don't mean to be dramatic but how many failures is a judgement? I don't m...

I have sadly fallen out of another competition. I know the competition was fierce because the feedback I received was hugely positive. I...

...you can't figure out how to finish your story for a competition and the deadline is looming!

A group of writers of which I am a member on Facebook does a 30 word story every Thursday. It's an interesting way to try flexing your w...

Here's where things start to go wrong: At the start!  I haven't written crime fiction before.  I want to expand my skillset though, ...

I discovered via an acquaintance that there is a crime writing competition being run for crime stories set in Scotland and it is far too te...

This is another story that didn't get me through the first round. It's not a bad story but I'll admit I needed more room to inve...