Lots of writing activity means no time to update the blog.  My first play is finished and posted (posted! In a post box!) to a competition.  I'm preparing a short story for a writing group and a new version of the synopsis of the novel for an agent.  Plus, I've just signed up for NaNoWriMo - or National Novel Writing Month, which sets the target of a 50,000 word novel in November...hey, for me, it's more doable than growing a moustache...

Writing, she thought, is being able to take out on your characters what you would like to happen to others.  On a page, the bleeding began…