The Fictional Fifties

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  • What Easter teaches us about hope and renewal

    (even when life feels heavy) Every year, Easter seems to sneak in right as the world is thawing out. Trees bud, the sun lingers longer, and there’s this unspoken invitation to start again… Well that got your attention – or maybe it didn’t as there is such a lot these days vying for it. The…

  • 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…

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