Blog Posts

  • The Rules of Writing

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I was talking with some writer friends recently and after the usual topics of cake, booze and sex (hey, we ARE writers after all…) we started on the old chestnut, what are the rules of writing. More importantly, do we need to follow them? Do I need to use third person for…

  • Alan

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] When we first lived together, my then fiance and I had a top floor flat in a tenement in Shawlands, Glasgow. The front windows looked out over Pollok Park. We had nothing facing us and we never bothered with curtains. In the summer it was so bright we had to wear sunglasses indoors,but we…

  • Catch Up

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Hey, it’s been a while! How are you? Have you been on holiday? You’re looking good. I feel like you are an old friend I haven’t seen in months and that there is loads to catch up on. I haven’t posted much recently – all sorts of boring reasons for that –…

  • Stylish Blogger Award

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] My thanks go to the lovely Sarah who passed on the Stylish Blogger Award to me. First, I have to say that there is no one less deserving of a ‘stylish’ award: I spend my days kicking around in a jeans and a jumper or jumper AND cardigan (depending on whether it…

  • A Hairy Post

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I dyed my hair this morning and it didn’t go quite as I had hoped. The colour ended up darker and

  • What Genre Should I Write – A Quiz

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] In the best spirit of Cosmo, the Jacky and many other teenage magazines, I thought we’d have a fun quiz to see what genre you should be writing in. Eyes down! 1. You’re out for a walk in a country park. Do you –

  • No Means No

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] On Saturday afternoon my daughter and I took part in a Slutwalk in Glasgow. This movement started in Toronto where a Police Officer told women to stop dressing like sluts if they didn’t want to be raped. The chant of the protesters on Saturday was, “Whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes…

  • Smelling The Flowers

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Ladies, I have a confession to make that makes me feel I am letting down the sisterhood. I enjoy washing dishes. I know. I’m sorry. I always considered myself a feminist, but since my dishwasher died last week I’ve had to wash all the dishes by hand and I have found comfort…

  • I’m Here, But I’m Also There.

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I was invited by the lovely Anora at Books By Women to write a blog post and the results are here now. By the way, please ignore the picture. I sent the one I was using to learn about airbrushing in Photoshop instead of my usual avatar. It’s silly. But when you…

  • Versatile Blogger Award

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Many thanks to the lovely Ange Barton who bestowed the Versatile Blogger Award on me today. I had just got in after a stressful shopping expedition with my mum so this was just the tonic I needed – thanks again, Ange x Now I have to tell you seven facts about myself…