May is going to be a big month writing-wise for all those who choose for it to be. I’ve been invited to hold writing workshops over the entire 3 days – yep, 3 days of writing workshops! I had thought of doing a complete weekend course but thought that might limit the number of people able to attend, so in the end I divided the days into individual workshops for those who only want (or are free) to attend the odd one or two, but I’ve also organised a special price for those who are eager to attend for entire days.

I’ve just updated the Writing to Inspire site, including adding an option for people to write book reviews and share their favourite writing prompts. I’d love to know what

I’ve a simple question for you this week, what age did you start writing? Not what age …

How do you feel about your work once you’ve submitted it for publication or to a competition? Are you anxious, waiting to hear back? Do you just forget about that piece of work and move on to the next? Or are you somewhere in between?

If you’ve got a spare couple of hours on your hands and you’ve decided you want to write something – but aren’t working on any project – how would you start writing? Do you have a favourite starting point for writing? Do you have a writing exercise that you do for fun

I’ve never really been one of those people eagerly searching for quotes. I like to have them on hand in case they emphasis a point I’m making in my writing, but you won’t find me regularly flicking through the enticing gift books that seem so popular. Which is what makes this week’s book purchase all the more strange

Now I have to admit to not using hot water for laundry, I rarely water the lawn (and it shows), I put plants under taps that refuse to stop dripping, etc, but it does occur to me that as a writer I’m in a business that requires paper and in most cases electricity to write on it.

Since you are here on this blog, I’m going to make the assumption that you enjoy writing. For the sake of this post I’m also going to assume that you don’t write full-time for a living (however, if you do I would still be interested in your view on this topic).

The more time I spend with writers the more I realise that the majority of us are the ‘do homework for the Monday class on Sunday evening’ kind. Why is that?

Thought I’d turn the tables today; rather than ask you a question this Friday I thought I would offer to answers your questions.