We are Jo. Jo – short for Josephine – is our preferred pseudonym. We are a (happily) married couple. He mostly writes scientific papers, she is a published novelist. She writes in Italian. English is not our native tongue, so creative...

A bloody hell, blinded heart  Man of nothing, moan thy part  Of no respect, for fine spir't  The kind that loves, finds merit  That lies breathless, brands sorrows  All peers bemoan, pob ymaros 

Been picking at my book every day. 7700 or so words, 6 chapters and roughly 25% complete to bring me with an estimated 36,000 word word count. Though likely that will be too short and will need to be worked in a second draft. As 36,000...

I was playing around with a story, about a boy on a tenant farm. It was a writing exercise, pushing myself to the limits. Here is some of it.... The fellow were a deep aboriginal, with the spectacles of a teacher, and the rugged look of...

I have to change my profile now coz I'm 17 now 😂 

Hello everyone, I have some happy news I'd like to share with you about my novel The Age of Smiling Secrets. Some background: a few years ago, I approached Writers Workshops (as it was then) for help with my novel. Cut long story short,...

Hi everyone. Stop me if you think you've heard this one before. I had a good idea for a novel. I started writing. I wrote about 20000 words. Then I gave up. I put it on the shelf, so to speak, and had another idea. I thought: This...

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Tyranny, is like Fort Knox, and the devaluing of precious metals, in a bad economy. Rumour is, gold and silver scale dramatically, in opposite directions. It is like divination, and the trickle down effect. One gives, the other takes. It...

Michael Rosen, the much loved author of We Are Going on a Bear Hunt, was told he 'might not wake up' when he was put on a ventilator after being admitted to hospital with Covid. He's now safe at home and recovering. Click to read the...

Joining our Townhouse community is easy and free. Just follow these steps... Go to community.jerichowriters.com (this will open in a new window so you can continue to follow this guide) – this is a different platform to our main Jericho...

I am interested in spy novels. There seems to be three fazes: the facility, the target, and the fallout. The truth is someone dies, but there is the secret side of a secret agent, in that it is a secret, a very dark secret. One wonders...

A Trip through Time – Vincent Saint Quentin Upon this French bench, I sat in recumbent silence. The food before me, a bagel, were not the article of such renown, as alamode. And the pigeons here, were just as agreeing as in any other...

Mm, shall I write about the Big Taboo? Okay, let’s put it this way: if the Voice Upstairs called down to me “Come in Gerry, your time is up”, how would I feel? Well, on a purely selfish level, I’d be fascinated and excited at the...

I was reminded of a place I always wanted to go. The new Trolls movie is bound to make waves. The first attempt at singing for Anna Kendrick was terrific, intimate song choice, full of self satisfaction. The next instalment, World Tour,...

The coronavirus is irking me. I saw the initial excavation of a hospital for five thousand beds and it reminded me of North Koreans marching to the Bee Gees. The trucks and diggers looked like ants swarming a toilet bowl. I have...

I am trying to emulate a certain style, jumping around, rather than staying linear. A man sat on a bench, and he were eating lunch. The ducks, were being fed, by little children, but a boy were drowning in the lake, and the old man were...

Wow, January is nearly over and as we limp, blooded and skint, towards the first payday since Christmas, here is a little round up of the interesting and thought-provoking (and sometimes downright witty) stuff we’ve been talking about on...

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