Mystery and Intrigue in Bulawayo

 It's been quite a long, hard week.  Ask any teacher - online teaching is no fun at all and requires a lot more work than normal teaching does. Throw in the stress over having no power and I was almost a gibbering wreck.  My release this week has been starting to write a new crime novel. I have all the details worked out this time and feel frustrated that I can't just connect my brain to my laptop and download the story.  I have been writing in bed just before going to sleep.  I was not sure that this would be the best time to write as my brain is quite tired and I also feared it might stop me from going to sleep as I would be thinking about the next bit.  However, it has proved the opposite.  I go to sleep with a sense of fulfillment as I have done something I really enjoy. Until I earn millions as a writer, I will always have to fit it in around everything else, so it is important to do a little bit every day. People often ask me how I have time to w...

  I had good intentions for this year.   I was going to get up early, do yoga, meditate and write every day.   Days would be interspersed with long walks, the preparation of big, wholesome, healthy family meals, and the reading of all the books I haven’t got round to reading yet.                   All was on course until around 11 am on January 1 st , when the electricity went off.   It hadn’t actually been on that long as we had been almost two weeks without it, but this time it seriously drained me of any resolve.                 Of course, I did not need electricity for anything I had planned, unless you include following a yoga schedule on YouTube or using my laptop to ‘write’ on.   However, there is something about a power cut that really does drain the environment of energy or purpose.   So much...