Yes. I love the cold weather. And I finished a short story this week too.

This week I did a thing. I tried AI. Put my own writing to the test.

My challenge this week is to walk ... but has the walking done my writing any good?

A month in (back at writing) and I'm beginning to lose the plot.

Something else I've re-realised ... is my own belief in keeping the story simple, and I watched ... a wonderful example of this last night in the 2026 film, 'The Bone Temple'.

So today I finished my second full week at being back writing, and I will admit it was a wee bit tougher though not in terms of actually writing words.

A week into my return to writing and I've played with words every day.

I've had a good twelve months of not writing. A hiatus that turned out longer than expected.

I'm reading 50 of the World's Greatest Short Stories...

And so I come to the final instalment of this blog inspired by a Threads game where one is challenged to name twenty books you'd read that had greatly influenced you - without commenting why or how. At first I didn't think much of it, but as I progressed I realised it was really quite interesting - possibly more so personally - to think whether or not... These authors and works, Have they influenced me as an author? So I figured as a blog I'd consider them in more detail, lo