The Fictional Fifties

Blogger, writer & publisher

  • International Social Work Month

    Sometimes finding writing and blogging inspiration is hard, so I was pleased to find information online about World Social Work Day (18th March 2025). This is the perfect material for my site and blog – The Fictional Fifties – a largely invented account of my progress through my fifth decade. Coming from a family full…

  • Peak boho

    The Boho Mindset: How to Live a Free-Spirited, Unconventional Life

  • The Leiston Riddle

    ‘The Leiston Riddle’ will be the second novel in the DCI Doggett series. The first story was ‘The Sizewell Murders’. Here is an excerpt:- ‘Oh my GOD — why us!!!’ Shirley looked back towards the caff — only ten minutes ago they had been purchasing a take away drink as if they were care free…

  • I go ‘viral’

    about time too! Who sold over 1,000 copies of their debut self-published novel ‘Case Closed Monday’?! I did… 669 people saw fit to comment on this via ‘Threads’ – and they say the internet is ‘negative’. Other than that I have been applying to The Arts Council – I fancy a research trip to the…

  • Go slow!

    Sometimes life has a way of slowing us down even though we would rather it didn’t. In actual fact setting up my new computer is taking a lot longer than I thought it would. I journaled consistently through October but it was all horrifically personal – I don’t think I can look back at it.…

  • Early on in the fictional fifties

    It was my birthday at the end of September hence the radio silence, I found myself journaling a lot over this time – something about getting older that lends itself to self-reflection maybe?!

  • Quilty as charged!

    I write crime fiction and have thus far been able to publish my work on my own using Amazon and social media marketing. My next project will be ‘The Leiston Riddle’ – this is the story of Maggie and Jake two teens who become inadvertently involved with a murder investigation headed up by DCI Mike Doggett:- DCI Mike…

  • I’ve been stealing myself

    in that I know I’ve got to keep on writing…about what and whom is less clear… I studied film-making at University – well it was really a Polytechnic and I was the awkward girl who didn’t seem very awkward compared to the other students. In fact one of the technicians straight out asked me ‘What…

  • Knife in the Water

    I don’t tend to find current affairs very uplifting but I did find myself taking in that a super yacht has gone down off the coast of Sicily and that two bodies have been recovered. There followed a bland description of a rescue operation that couldn’t really have been less evocative (Radio 2 – I…

  • Magical realism – Firefly

    The divine heat haze of the day will soon ebb into the cool of a summer’s evening notwithstanding the bathroom towel rail still emitting a steady 45 degrees Celsius all the better to dry my new swim wear. Secondly these Sarfolk houses do maintain the damp rather too well and often need a good drying…

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