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Autumn has come in with a bang. I love it! It's getter ever more beautiful out there. It is a time when I draw in and start getting creative again. I'd say its a time for getting cosy, but here in the UK we are all going to be sitting around in jumpers because of energy costs. Hey ho.

I'm getting writing again after so much energy spent on marketting. It's not playing to my strengths, but determination can get you a long way I reckon. Anyway... my two little words. Last week I got my friends to give me random words which I then drew three out of the hat. The words were, Concrete, Reinforced (these words came in separately) and Pronation, (Thanks for that Andy ) It's the way a foot rolls in on landing. Not my usual choice of words, but I said I'd work with what came out of the hat. In the end I decided I couldn't work with Reinforced, so I went with Concrete and Pronation. What a happy pairing! So I put together a flash fiction/short story called, After the Fall, inspired by those words.

This is the first time I've written in the present tense. It was difficult not to keep returning to past tense. If you see places I've slipped up on that, do let me know. It's also the first time I've written from a male perspective. I'd be interested to get any comments on how that is working.

But before that, a word about the hat. My husband, Seymour, picked it up years ago in Colorado. He had been touring round the world with the RSC, doing King Lear with Ian Mckellan. Yup, I'm name dropping. Seymour flew from singapore and I flew from the UK. We met in Denver. We had a wonderful week in the Rockies, followed by a week in New York while he was playing the BAM in Brooklyn. Enough of the romanitc stuff.

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