Week ends
And so the week ends. Glorious weather here in the UK and I expect we’ll find a park nearby to enjoy the sunshine over the weekend. Just grabbing a peaceful, cool moment before the hectic evening...
View ArticleWater, water everywhere
No, not a downpour of rain, although previous weeks have seen plenty of those, but one of those awful moments when your best laid plans are washed away. There we were on Saturday afternoon, having a...
View ArticleContenders
So another writing competition is over and the results are published. It was certainly a difficult one to judge with more entries than before and a high proportion of new writers, new to The Word Hut...
View ArticleContenders Too
Picking up from where I left off with my last blog, here’s a few comments on the other entries which made it onto our Shortlist for The Word Hut’s 6th Short Story Writing Competition. Mandy Huggins’...
View ArticlePast present
So Christmas is well and truly over and I better stir myself from post-party lethargy and get down to some writing of my own, starting with this blog entry. After a break of several weeks from my...
View ArticleWarming up
At last the weather is a little warmer and I can go to work with one less layer of clothing. Although it’s lovely to feel warm and layered up, the problems occur at the other end of the journey when...
View ArticleMay Day Hey
I thought this week I would go back to the rambling, meandering blog that I usually produced for The Word Hut. As I sit in the glorious sun of a May Day Bank Holiday it’s easy to forget the cold...
View Article9th Review
This was a bumper contest both in quantity and quality. As you’ve probably seen we decided to extend the Longlist to 35. We felt there were just so many good stories that it was only fair to...
View ArticleMixed Blog
A few ramblings this week as the sun is shining, for about the third day in a row, and I want to grab some of that brilliant fresh air before disappearing into the deepest, darkest depths of the...
View ArticleShort shorts
No, this blog isn’t a collection of photographs of me back in my teenage years wearing some ridiculous fashion, sorry to disappoint you boys! At The Word Hut we all LOVE short stories. That goes...
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