Tempus Fugit

February 6, 2011
February already!  Christmas seems an age away, but I'm blowed if I know where January went.  Somehow I always think I can fit more in.  I have set up a website and a facebook page and started tweeting (all of which were easier than I thought, despite being instant death to anything involving technology).  I've also had a story highly commended in the Sunpenny Open Short Story Competition, which should be published later this year, and a publisher has expressed interest in my fantasy novel, Discord's Child, so maybe I haven't done so badly, after all.

In the past year, several long-established writing competitions have bitten the dust.  Sadly, the latest is Hastings Writers' Group's Legend Writing Awards.  One that's hanging in there is the Slingink Shorts competition, which now has details online at http://slingink.com.  It's for works of 140 words exactly plus a one-word title, and it's still very reasonable to enter.  The closing date is 30th April 2011.  It's well worth having a go.

Posted by Karla Sally Dearsley.

 

Why Blog?

January 30, 2011
There must be thousands of writers' blogs, so why am I adding to them?  I suppose I could blame the compulsion writers feel to write, whether anyone reads what they put or not.  There's also the desire to share.  Perhaps my experiences as a writer, good and not so good, might inspire, inform or at least make someone else feel they aren't doing so badly.

I aim to include any nuggets and writing tips that might be of interest to other writers, the occasional short piece or extract from my own wo...
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Posted by Karla Sally Dearsley.

 
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About Me


My writing career began as a freelance feature writer for the local press, businesses and organisations. Now a prize-winning playwright and short story writer, my work has appeared in numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic. I write as K. S. Dearsley because it saves having to keep repeating my forename, and specialise in fantasy and other speculative genres.

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