The Thing About Migraines

Sometimes I wonder if that sharp pain in my brain, the kind leavetaking of a departing migraine*, is actually the onset of a haemorrhage. Shortly after leaving primary school and heading to the big school (circa 400 pupils), one of…

Ghost Dates

Does anyone else collect ghost dates? I don’t mean literal potentially-romantic meetings with the corporeally dispossessed, or anything to do with ghosting (actually, I have a draft of a potential post on just this subject, perhaps I should polish and…

Forgetting Favicons

Up until this morning, my laptop browser (I currently use Opera) had a neat little bookmarks bar, featuring the favicons of my most-used sites. No words, no folders, just tiny, pretty sigils. I liked this, and still do, but I…

WIP TKTowerBonus 310319 974 Words

Yes, I am aware that this was actually several days ago, but I realised I had forgotten to post the wordcountability photo from this day. Here you go, 974, in the evening, on a Sunday, after the clocks changed. I…

WIP TKTowerBonus 30.03.19 827 Words

I am really pleased with this. I’ve talked before about how I write much better in the early morning so, to craft these words after 1700 is pleasing. Next week, I return to more freelance paid work, hoping to again…

WIP TKTowerBonus 28.03.19 1070 Words

Boom! This is the highest number of words I’ve attained in this recent period of wordcountability (also, see here). Rather pleased with this and the direction the tale is heading. Although I’m not entirely sure what happens at the next…

WIP TKTowerBonus 26.03.19 929 Words

This morning this story flowered, blossoming into life. So far, in the bits I’ve drafted that I suspect will stay in the redraft, there are three lines of dialogue. Each one the same. Other than this, the whole of the…