January 2025 - PenBridge Writing

Spirits in Isolation

Flash fiction or vignette for our word of the week: Hermetic

My best and worst books of 2024 and reading goals for the year ahead

Flash Fiction featuring a cavalry charge, ice-cream and brass instruments. Exploring the meaning of cornet

A compelling hero telling a simple but compelling tale with a bittersweet ending.

A vignette featuring a overworked CEO, fashionable handbags and trouble. Word of the Week is Modish.

How did the National Novel Writing Month Challenge go for me in 2024, and what did I learn from the experience about novel writing

Words for this week. Consigliere, consanguinity, germane, higgledy-piggledy

A possibly unpopular take on YellowFace by RF Kuang, which basically explores how to ruin your own authorial career while also coming off as racist