The Fictional Fifties

Tag: Fiction

  • Flaming June

    1. Mid-Year Writing Reflections: ‘What I’ve Learned So Far in 2025‘

  • Write like a gardener

    🌱 Plot Gardening: What May Teaches Us About Story Structure May is a month of emergence. In gardens, green shoots push through the soil, buds swell on branches, and flowers begin to open—signs of life that have been quietly developing below the surface for weeks. For writers, especially those deep in the process of crafting…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Chairman Mao

    Hello! Having moved it is time to orient my self to a different part of the same town. A new space to write in; a new hairdresser (maybe) and best of all my lovely new kitchen! And what is even better – a new url – the fictional fifties dot com. Since I started writing…