by Marg Roberts | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
In our local Society of Authors’ group, we started to share where we write. The places are as varied as what we write and the people we are. From writing friends, I’ve learned there’s a long list of places:- a study at home, at a computer, on a train...
by Marg Roberts | Feb 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
January, a month of resolutions, has been slow. I’ve been editing one novel, working on another and starting some new poems. It’s hard to feel satisfied at the end of a day. Since the beginning of the year, I’ve edited 89 pages of my novel, Making...
by Marg Roberts | Dec 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Cold moon – Winter solstice from our garden How do we describe the break between Christmas and New Year? The French use an expression, ‘la trève de confiseurs’, which roughly translated means ‘the lull for the confectioners.’ There is a...
by Marg Roberts | Dec 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
In writing about war it’s all too easy to focus on the trauma. The men and women involved, whether military or civilians, have moments of happiness. A letter from home, a sunset, making friends with a cat or a dog, going into a local shop. Small things in...
by Marg Roberts | Nov 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Time for Peace was published by Cinnamon Press in 2016. Over ten years before that I’d been made redundant by the probation service and began to write – not formal reports, but fiction and poetry. What began as disappointment at losing a career and way...
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