Writing Links of the Week and Flash Fiction

Here are the links to my articles published last week. To read some more (on a wide variety of topics) go to my webpage.

Important Facts About Food Allergies

What is Fool’s Paradise Day?

Affordable Winter School Holiday Fun

Monday Flash Fiction

This micro fiction story was written for last week’s Friday’s Flash!Friday competition. The full prompts can be seen over here.

At the End of the Rainbow

“It’s just half your soul. What do you want a whole one for if half will do?” the scaly man in the black suit grinned.

Chemical Factory. CC2.0 photo by Astrid Westvang.

Behind him the behemoth stood half finished. Soon the factory would start belching smoke and leaving traces of soot on every shack. The bright lights of the city beyond sang of future riches as they danced and swayed seductively in lines of yellow and red. The siren song pulled at heartstrings, dulled the senses, made promises of skyscrapers and mansions it could not keep. Just like it’s called to you for the past decade. 

“Just half?”

The sirens sing of a pot of gold just out of reach.

You can’t shut out the song forever. It grows and changes and stretches its way into lying promises spilling from so many mouths.

The man nods.

The sirens close in on their prey.

Guest Posts, Articles, and Links Galore!

Apart from writing fiction, I also write guest posts and articles on a weekly basis. These range from thoughts about current news and life’s journey to tips and hacks.  The links will also be updated on the page link above as more are published.

Lifestyle & Inspiration

·       Statues can be used to promote conversation

·       I Love South Africa's Diversity

·       See the “Someone” in “Some People”

·       The Power of your Personal Soundtrack

·       Make the Most of Your 2015 Goals

·       How to Slow Down This Summer Holiday

·       Dare to Live Life Every Moment

·       Live Your Own Hero’s Journey

·       How to Take Responsible Risks to Follow Your Dream

Culture, News & Literature

·       Why Reading the Classics Shows Our Common Humanity

·       Leonard Nimoy - Life and Legend

·       What is Easter and Why is it Celebrated?

·       Heat - Record-setting Heatwaves in History

·       Ebola: What you need to know

·       Oscar Pistorius: Trial and Sentencing

·       Five years for Oscar Pistorius

·       Robin Wiliams – Lasting Legend

·       Top 5 Vintage James Bond Cars 

Tips & Hacks

·       Why Not Create Your Own Economy? (Indivineur)

·       How to - Spring Clean

·       Four Tips for Credit Card Users

·       How to Cope with Power Cuts

·       Seven Tips for Everyday Road Safety

·       Back to School in 2015

·       5 Tips for Coping with Fear & Anxiety

·       4 Tips to Conquer Fear and Anxiety

·       5 easy time hacks to get more time out of your day 

·       5 Tips for Surviving Change: A New Job 

·       Retrenchment: 5 Tips for Surviving Change 

·       4 tips for surviving an office party

·       What is Black Friday all about?

·       The Top Reason Why You Need Insurance 

·       Understand Life Insurance

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Articles, Easter, and Campnanowrimo!

I’ve been taking a bit of a break during March, but I still had some articles and posts appearing (links below). I needed some time away from my normal routine and the bombardment of media you sometimes slip into.

Articles and links

I’ve had requests for some articles about Easter and the Easter holiday. In the more serious article about why Easter is celebrated, I tried to give a short and quite basic answer; as I intended it to be for readers who do not know why Easter is celebrated and just want to find out the basics. The last article is one I’ve already Tweeted about. The subject of classic literature is close to my heart, and I want to do a follow up article here on Hersenskim as well. Click on the titles to read the articles:

What is Easter and Why is it Celebrated?

Fun Things to Do This Easter Holiday

Seven Tips for Everyday Road Safety

Why Reading the Classics Shows Our Common Humanity

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More Writing! Campnanowrimo!

That said, there are more articles to come, as well as my post for the Writing Process Blog Tour, and I’ll be taking part in Campnanowrimo in April. While I won’t be tackling a novel in April, I will be continuing with some major worldbuilding and planning of the stories I want to write. I hope to start working on a proper draft of the first one in May and will then take part in Nanowrimo again in November (though I will have to wait and see how far I get before knowing what exactly I’ll be writing in November).

As this will be my first camp, I’m quite looking forward to it! (And I know my local coffee shop will be seeing a lot of me…)

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