Wow, Thank You So Much <3 <3 <3

Evening lovely readers 🙂

The post today is just to say thank you so much to everyone who has been kind enough to follow my blog. I have now hit and gone over the one hundred mark. I can’t even begin to tell you how much this means to me. I don’t consider myself a writer, I merely do what I’m passionate about and vent about it along the way 🙂 I am so grateful I have found so many people that put up with my creative attempts and childish complaining 🙂 If I could meet you all I would buy you cake but since I can’t this one will have to do…

On Friday there will be a special #FlashFriday and an attempt at a poem (run now lol) to show how grateful I am. I hope to do justice to your interest in the future and never let you down 🙂 Oh, and my post about active voice use is coming I promise but I was a bit naughty and had a date night with my fiancé yesterday (hence no post postage) and I just had to thank everyone today so it will now come tomorrow I promise 🙂

Thank you 🙂

I Can Be A Grown Up Too, But Sometimes My Passion Runs Away With Me

Afternoon lovely readers 🙂

This is just a small post to inform you I have rewritten my book review from yesterday. I let my passion for literature run away with me and perhaps didn’t put much thought into the description and order I wanted to use to describe the series. I now have so I apologise to those inflicted with my first draft and I hope you’ll read the second draft now to see the wonder and excitement of the book. I respect this author greatly and hope she can see that I tried to do justice to her work 🙂

Thank you 🙂

Yahoo I Have a Deadline

Afternoon dear bloggers 🙂 Just a mini post today 🙂

I know what you’re thinking from the title of the post; yep she must be crazy. Won’t a deadline just add to the stress? Strangely yes and no. A deadline will spur me to work on my novel and try to perfect it to the best of my abilities. Have you never found focus in dwindling time? I’m so excited 🙂 Those who may read my blog will notice I haven’t posted anything in a long time. This is due to the fact that my baby girl is now three months old. She’s the most beautiful and perfect little girl you will ever see but my gosh it takes some energy looking after her 🙂 So, I haven’t had much time at all to do any writing. However, I’ve recently had dialogue with my editor who wants my novel by the end of May 🙂 So I have a month and a half to perfect it 🙂 Yay, somehow I feel more focused, more determined and so happy my writing is finally going somewhere 🙂

As to my novel the rewrite is going well. My main male character is now far more manly and powerful. The story flows far more smoothly and the characters now make more sense. Among the major changes I have also made a few minor ones. My main character was called Alyssa. I picked this name years ago before I had even met my boyfriend but since he picked the name Alyssia for our beautiful girl I couldn’t help but change it in my novel to Alyssia too. It’s a beautiful name and I hope in some small way a nice dedication to my firstborn. I really hope my editor will like my novel. I’m almost bursting with happiness 🙂

Anyhoo, back to the writing I go 🙂 I hope you’ve all had a stellar weekend 🙂

Where Am I? An Update and a Smile Go a Long Way

Good evening lovely readers 🙂

Right about now seemed like a good time to flesh out where I am with my writing. So many exciting things are happening at the moment that it felt right to post about it. As mentioned in the previous post, the new anthology for Dagda Publishing is available from Amazon. All Hail the New Flesh is a collection of thirteen futuristic stories with a dystopian feel and a general theme of ‘technology gone mad.’ In this I have been lucky enough to have my short story Requiem chosen for publication; it’s a great honour and has been wonderful fuel for my creative fire. As I got overexcited and bought the kindle version this morning, a full review will be posted shortly 🙂

Next some wonderful personal news. Today I have had confirmation that I can get my novel professionally edited. The wonderful people at Dagda Publishing have agreed to edit my draft so I have the perfect version to send to publishers. I cannot begin to say how much I appreciate this as they are very busy with bringing out their fabulous novels and anthologies. I would in turn try to submit my novel to Dagda but I’m a self proclaimed fantasy nut through and through; give me sword and sorcery any day 🙂

And now to the blog news. I have to say that I do have a lot of rough copies of writing on here that I have stored for future use such as my novel idea Frozen. I do fully intend to carry on with this initial idea but as the paragraph above states I am concentrating on my original novel I Cast Magic Into the Darkness and intend to take this as far as I can. So in the meantime I hope you enjoy any posts I put on here in the future and for now take them as they are 🙂 Keep an eye out for improvements in the future.

And lastly I have a new #FlashForFriday in the creating which will be posted on here on Friday. It’s in reply to a flash fiction challenge my friend told me about where you have to rewrite a fairy tale and include a sub genre that wasn’t in the original. I am so excited in writing this and can’t wait for you to see what I have done. I hope you like it 🙂

Thank you 🙂

Lay In Wait

As I have said previously when I find something that moves me I will post it on here to tell others of the creativity I find. This time I am proud to say that the creativity itself comes from a member of my own family. This is an excerpt from my young cousin Amelia Hinchey who is showing an artistic flare that seems to far surpass my own. She is currently working on this story and I can see that it’s one to watch and want to read once ready. I’m very proud of you Amelia and all I can say is keep working on it and keep reading and writing. I’m very glad to see I’m not the only writer in the family 🙂 *Artwork is by Luis Royo*

Lay in Wait

DO NOT COPY, PASTE, EDIT,RENAME, REWRITE! (my cousins instructions bless her)

Under a school which was filled with nothing but laughter I lay in wait for another black out game… I wait for the sound of footsteps, I wait for the sound of a turning door nod. I wait for the next round to begin. The wait of wonder if it will be fists or feet this time. The wait of dreaming of a world which I can never be in… Once the door opens blood is spilled and I remember nothing… All I remember is looking into the eyes of my twisted father. His golden eyes trying to break my soul, trying to make me as black as him. I cannot die here, I have to lay in wait for freedom. A freedom I was born out of as I am a slave. And once a slave your always a slave. So I lay in wait for another day in the hell hole I call my life. Here in the dark room I live in I lay in wait of the day I am free…

My day came of freedom as hands of a murder freed me… He was kind, smart and most of all he showed me that the world is a nice place. Because of him I am free, because of him I found my lover. Because of him I can forget the days in wait as I do not have to wait anymore.

Because of him I am free, because of him my father is dead and i have my freedom..

So what do you think? 🙂

I Cast Magic Into the Darkness – A K Hinchey

I took inspiration again from my wonderful friend Jex (jcollyer.wordpress.com) and added a new page to outline the story of my novel. I Cast Magic Into the Darkness is my telling of fantasy and having to survive through incomparable odds mixed with a little confusion along the way. I really hope you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed writing it 🙂