The Pen Wrangler

...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...

It's that time of year when pumpkin spice latte is all the rage and people who hate Christmas are getting overly excited about Halloween...

Another story went in at the weekend. It felt good to be back on the wagon after a messy summer. I did submit stories over the holidays. I j...