Blog Posts

  • Road Trip

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] My family takes a lot of road trips. We mainly holiday in the UK, driving to our destination and when we moved up north of Aberdeen over 10 years ago, we used to take many trips ‘home’ to visit family and friends. We always have fun on these trips, but they often…

  • Happy New Year

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] As 2010 ends our attention starts to shift to the year ahead. We look back on all that happened during the previous twelve months and start to formulate our hopes and dreams for the next year before us. Invariably, this ends up in a few tears and some well-intentioned New Year’s Resolutions.…

  • The Twelve Writery Days Of Christmas

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me   An Oxford English Dictionary. On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me Two SAEs And an Oxford English Dictionary. On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me Three Red pens Two SAEs…

  • The Awful Truth

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I imagine that most of you reading this will know me on twitter as @NettieWriter and some of you will have given me a #FollowFriday or #WriterWednesday recommendation. I always appreciate these, even though I may not personally reply to each one. Many of my shout-outs tell others how ‘really nice’ I…

  • Why I became Undercover Elephant

    I changed my avatar on Facebook recently. Several of my friends posted a request that you do so to show support of a campaign to end child violence and so I obliged. Do I support an end to child violence? Of course I do. Do I think that changing my avatar will make a difference?…

  • Amazon Web Splash: Help Talli Roland hot the Bestseller List

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Help Talli Roland’s debut novel THE HATING GAME hit the Kindle bestseller list at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk by spreading the word today. Even a few sales in a short period of time on Amazon helps push the book up the rankings, making it more visible to other readers. Amazon.co.uk: http://amzn.to/hNBkJk Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/hX2ieD…

  • Copyright

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I am a writer and lucky enough to have been published in a variety of magazines. I have shared some of my fiction on this blog, blithely ignorant of any resulting copyright issues. Today this will stop and I will no longer crossing my fingers and hoping for the best. How will…

  • Why You Should Never Trust A Man In Uniform

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I am a mother. No, not that kind of mother. The nurturing and caring kind. I always have been, even before I had a baby of my own. When my other half and I moved in together we thought the patter of little feet would complete our domestic bliss and after one…

  • CatchWord

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com]   On twitter today was a hashtag thread of #greatwords. There were some truly wonderful bon mots flying across the ether: gobshite, skedaddle, mittens. Being the smart arse you all know and (usually) tolerate, I had to join in. My contribution? Floccinaucinihilipilification. Yes, this really is a word. It’s definition is the estimation of something as valueless (encountered…

  • Stranger Danger

    One of the most important rules of internet usage we teach our children is to never, ever agree to meet up with people we meet online. No matter how nice they seem, how much you have in common and how innocent their requests are, you must never ever take the risk.