More than Writers

Image Credits:  Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay images. Memories may come into fiction more often than you might think. There is an obvious link between memories and memoir writing but fiction, surely not?    Think back to what you love reading and what drew you to write at all. Were you inspired by something you remember reading? I’ve always had a great love for the classic fairytales and they continue to influence a lot of what I write.  As for crime stories, how often is the culprit caught by the detective thanks to something they forgot or the culprit ends up contradicting their own alibi, having forgotten to ensure they keep their story straight? Those writing historical fiction must still remember to get their history right as they weave their own stories around this. It also needs to be remembered the characters in the story cannot know how the history will play out unless they are referring to something in their past. So memories play an important,...

Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay Do you remember the news story from a few years ago when a very famous novelist lost a laptop containing the draft of her work-in-progress? I remember being astonished that such a thing could happen to an established writer, who really should know better.  In the dim and distant past, before ‘Windows’ was even a thing, I took an IT module for my accountancy foundation course. I remember the lecturer drumming into the class the most important lesson of all: ‘Save, save, save!’. There wasn’t even any internet then to back up our files to, so we used the 1980s equivalent, hard disks. Then we had floppy disks, then pen sticks, and finally ‘the cloud’.  Most of us have probably had some kind of digital catastrophe. More than once, I have accidentally pressed the wrong button and seen my words disappear in front of me backwards, letter by letter.  It’s scary when you see hours of work vanish like that. A close relative of min...

  October 27 th 2025  Pass It On   Deuteronomy 30:14 (ESV) 14  But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. (keep the Commandments).  If you didn’t know it already (and by now you should) I am a Knitwit. Sorry, Brendan, I am trying very hard to adhere to your suggestion, back after my first post in April, that I should ditch that moniker in favour of KnitspiredLiz. But…when, as happened to me last Monday you can’t understand why your reservation on LNER doesn’t match the lights above the seat, it’s hard! Especially when the lovely train manager takes pity on the dithering old woman, and patiently explains I should have been travelling the next day, but if I faithfully promise not to try to travel again from Glasgow to Hull on the same ticket she’ll let me off another fare.  Here I have to confess to ANOTHER senior moment over whether I was spelling fare, fair or even Fayre… think my subconscious is ...