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Blog posts by Pamela Pickton

How I Came To Write ‘Reasons’

30-Jul-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

How I came to write the title story of my collection of short stories, Reasons. While studying for my Masters Degree in Creative Writing, I was fortunate to have Paul Bailey, novelist and critic, as my tutor for one option. The assignment was to write a 500 word story and I was unsure how to […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Old Man Young Woman, Pamela Pickton, Reasons, zitebooks

Good Fairy, Bad Fairy

6-Jul-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

how I came to write Good Fairy, Bad Fairy For a period of time, I was separated from my youngest daughter. We could no longer live together. It was to do with my life situation which is described in my prose writing at the beginning of the Poetry Collection Windows. She was at a Sixth Form […]

Filed Under: Getting Published, Opinion, Writing

The Admirers

8-Jun-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

HOW I CAME TO WRITE THE ADMIRERS I once had a neighbour who always had four cats. If one died, got run over or met a similar fate, she straightaway got another. One day I was in her house and her cats were all around us. Her man friend, Kim, was there too. I said […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Cats, Pamela Picton, Short Story, Windows

No Bananas

6-May-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

No Bananas When we had just returned from a two week’s holiday, my husband of a year – and you can see why it was not much longer – asked me, ‘Have we got any bananas?’ ‘Where would we have got them from?’ I replied. ‘Before we went away,’ he said. Holiday. Summer holiday. Like – […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing

Roll On Tomorrow

20-Apr-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

Roll on Tomorrow Of all my four children, only my one son has an English degree like me. Like me, he loves words and language, and people, and he is very funny, in a quaint, dry sort of way. One day, as a very young teenager, he said, ‘I like the idea of the sort […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing

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