A long overdue update, in pictures, & a super writing exercise

The blog's been quiet for so long, while behind the scenes I've been doing ALL THE THINGS and my blog-posts-to-write notebook is bursting its spine with lovely things to come, plus NaNoWriMo is already sending its unearthly shimmer over the horizon, so here's a quick rundown of the (mostly) writerly things I've been up to and a glimpse of all the blog-posts-to-come that I've foraged. Plus A BONUS KITTEN. And at the end, a super writing exercise.

Where to find your free NaNoWriMo writing postcards

Yesterday I released the NaNoWriMo postcards into the wild. If you're in or near Oxford, here's where to find them; if you're not, you can email me your address and I'll send you some for the cost of the stamp. I also, as you can see, discovered Instagram, which explains why all the pictures are filtered with the fervour of a recent convert...