VG LeeMar 21, 20192 minThrowback Thursday - Edinburgh Free Fringe 2009!In 2009, I did my first show at the Edinburgh Free Fringe. I was coming up for sixty and very intimidated by the other younger and experi...
VG LeeJan 31, 20193 minWRITE IT DOWN, make music, paint pictures, SING & dance!For those who are SO sad, SO angry, SO without hope. I’ve written and talked before about how I started to write but this is my first blo...
VG LeeJan 13, 20192 minI believe in miraclesWriting last week about song lyrics and their link to poetry and vice versa, https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/01/literature-lyrics-0?fbc...
VG LeeDec 17, 20184 minI STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING. A few weeks ago, I visited a writer friend of several decades. She lives in the top floor flat of a mansion block in London. As ever, as ...
VG LeeOct 12, 20187 minFLINT ROAD - short story This morning, Marianne went back to Flint Road. She didn’t feel nervous in an empty house even though it’s detached, set back from the ro...
VG LeeSep 27, 20183 minA Snail's View of the WorldAs a rule I write fiction containing a pinch of fact from my own history but for my present novel I've reversed this process and much of ...
VG LeeSep 17, 20182 minThere hangs the moon...I'm writing about my mother and wishing I had more photographs depicting her at different stages of her life. This is what interests me -...
VG LeeSep 1, 20183 minTHE MAN AT THE BUS STOP NOT WAITING FOR A BUSThis morning trying to finish a piece of writing, I was too late to catch the 10.18 bus taking me up the West Hill to the allotment. I se...
VG LeeAug 14, 20182 minHOW DREAMS BECOME SHORT STORIES From dream to fiction and back again. I was the child in a house with a man and a woman. Although the house was unfamiliar, I knew I bel...
VG LeeAug 3, 20181 minGrow Your Blog CommunityWith Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog c...