Children and horror stories: do they mix? burialbooks.com/where-do-you...
Where Do You Put Children in Horror Stories
Where do you put children in horror stories as an author? Check out the article by Fiona Jones on Burial Books website!
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November 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Children and horror stories: do they mix? burialbooks.com/where-do-you...
Food Gardening Network have taken quite a few of my family gardening stories. Here's the latest to come up: foodgardening.mequoda.com/articles/the...
The Carrot Waltz
It has always been a mystery to me: how do farmers manage to grow carrots that are perfectly straight, single-rooted, and almost uniform in shape and size, when carrots, given …
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November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Food Gardening Network have taken quite a few of my family gardening stories. Here's the latest to come up: foodgardening.mequoda.com/articles/the...
A political post: fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/i...
It’s Political
This is a writing blog. Me, a writer, writing about what I’m learning about writing-related matters. Which kinds of books I like/don’t like and why; what I really think about semicolons…
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November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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This summer/autumn I have picked 108kg of blackberries just in and around my town. www.choeofpleirnpress.com/harvest-harm...
Choeofpleirn Press - Harvest Harmony
Because we want to promote a national consumption of literature, we are creating a new kind of poetry-meme through our online zines.
Contestants should send us their previously unpublished 12-line po...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This summer/autumn I have picked 108kg of blackberries just in and around my town. www.choeofpleirnpress.com/harvest-harm...
A long, long time ago, back in the 1900s, when kids had wax crayons instead of tablets, and colouring-in was a thing.
"Earliest Memory" by @FiiJ20.bsky.social, who writes short, dark-themed fiction and nature-themed nonfiction. More micros at fiveminutelit.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A long, long time ago, back in the 1900s, when kids had wax crayons instead of tablets, and colouring-in was a thing.
Hi Blueys, can I have a few shares on this please? It's only my personal blog, but if you agree with me, please give it a push; and if you don't agree, well by all means take your courage in both hands and argue in favour of electronic devices. fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/j...
September 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hi Blueys, can I have a few shares on this please? It's only my personal blog, but if you agree with me, please give it a push; and if you don't agree, well by all means take your courage in both hands and argue in favour of electronic devices. fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/j...
Blogging away from home today: streetlightmag.com/2025/07/14/w...
What Would Shakespeare Do? by Fiona M. Jones | Streetlight Magazine
What Would Shakespeare Do? by Fiona M. Jones
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July 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Blogging away from home today: streetlightmag.com/2025/07/14/w...
The Story of the Unreliable Narrator and the Ghost Car: fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/u...
The Unreliable Narrator and the Ghost Car
I am an Unreliable Narrator. If you’ve ever read or written stories, you’ll have met the Unreliable Narrator technique, wherein the author knows what’s happening and the character…
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June 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Story of the Unreliable Narrator and the Ghost Car: fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/u...
What's the moral of this story? entropy2.com/blogs/100wor...
We Will All Stop Using Acronyms « A Story In 100 Words
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May 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I have a paragraph here today: www.paragraphplanet.com
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April 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I have a paragraph here today: www.paragraphplanet.com
Am I right? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
Girls Don’t Talk About Chess
I’m feeling vaguely ashamed again, and as usual I don’t quite know why. I think I must have overstepped a subtle social barrier, plunged myself into the usual minority of one. Here’s what...
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April 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Am I right? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
Merry 32nd March, everyone! fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/m...
March 32nd
Unfortunately I’m not teaching today, so I won’t get to April-fool the young and not-quite-innocent. I’m at home on my sofa, or thereabouts, nursing a broken collarbone—a seatbelt injury from a car…
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April 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Merry 32nd March, everyone! fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/m...
I am SO TIRED of people bragging about how they've bought a chatbot to replace them in interacting with their children. Why have children then? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
Remember Your Why
What do you do when your children ask too many questions? Maybe it’s natural curiosity; maybe it’s for a school project; maybe they’re concerned about something they’ve heard, and they’re...
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February 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I am SO TIRED of people bragging about how they've bought a chatbot to replace them in interacting with their children. Why have children then? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
When someone tells you a chatbot has written a "poem", but then you look at the "poem" and it's no better than a highschooler's homework... fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/w...
When the Moon Rhymes with June…
Once upon a very, very long time ago, people read the works of Milton, Longlace, Donne et al, and decided to try writing poetry too. Anyone with any pretensions to a stylish education could dabble …
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February 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
When someone tells you a chatbot has written a "poem", but then you look at the "poem" and it's no better than a highschooler's homework... fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/w...
Are your children drowning in plastic? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
Drowning
I’m looking back to when I had babies, thinking of the things I wasn’t prepared for. The sheer weight of responsibility, knowing that what you do and don’t do makes a real and lifelong...
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January 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Are your children drowning in plastic? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
Where are the writers on Bluesky, and which of them will agree with me and write whatever words they need to write? fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/w... #writing #writers #words
What Would Shakespeare Do?
What do you do when something ought to be a word but isn’t yet? You’re typing in something you’ve written, and a little red line appears under it. You’re supposed to humbly …
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January 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Where are the writers on Bluesky, and which of them will agree with me and write whatever words they need to write? fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/w... #writing #writers #words
Who'd like to read a nice little Christmas story?https://everydayfiction.com/a-christmas-wish-fiona-m-jones/
December 26, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Who'd like to read a nice little Christmas story?https://everydayfiction.com/a-christmas-wish-fiona-m-jones/
Are you one of those people who blast the moss off your stonework and burn it out of your grass with toxic chemicals? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
We Need to Talk about Moss
We need to talk about moss. We need to talk about all things green, everything that terraforms the planet, tames the rage of wind and water, gathers carbon out of air and feeds the biosphere. We have....
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December 15, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Are you one of those people who blast the moss off your stonework and burn it out of your grass with toxic chemicals? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
St Boswells, Scottish Borders. Or thereabouts. www.elsewhere-journal.com/latest-issue...
River Tweed — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
By Fiona M. Jones Whose woods these are I think I know, or at least whose woods these were, but the river flowing down below cares not whose land is whose, not yet whose trees are these and whose are...
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November 24, 2024 at 11:37 PM
St Boswells, Scottish Borders. Or thereabouts. www.elsewhere-journal.com/latest-issue...
Name a dinosaur. Any dinosaur. For research purposes. www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
Name a Dinosaur
Name a dinosaur. Any dinosaur. Why does nearly everyone say Tyrannosaurus Rex? Why does he get all the attention? What’s he ever done for us apart from stomping around very, very heavily and...
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November 18, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Name a dinosaur. Any dinosaur. For research purposes. www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
When people ask me to write recipes...https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/things-i-cant-read-or-write/
November 4, 2024 at 4:25 PM
When people ask me to write recipes...https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/things-i-cant-read-or-write/
"Life is Rubbish": www.blackharepress.com/life-is-rubb...
Life is Rubbish - Black Hare Press
by Fiona M. Jones “Damien.” It was the Enemy. “What—” Damien dodged away, throwing chairs to slow the Enemy’s advance. He needed to level up, exchange the bread knife in his jacket for a machete. He h...
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October 31, 2024 at 11:06 AM
"Life is Rubbish": www.blackharepress.com/life-is-rubb...
What schoolchildren REALLY need to do, when they're feeling inspired to write a story, is to stop and fill out a formal Planning Page stating characters, setting and story arc... www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
Is Planning the Best Plan?
I’m not saying I hate being a teacher, but there are some things I really, really hate teaching. And one of them is The Writing Lesson. Yes, that’s right: I’m a literary writer, and I dread...
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September 17, 2024 at 11:32 AM
What schoolchildren REALLY need to do, when they're feeling inspired to write a story, is to stop and fill out a formal Planning Page stating characters, setting and story arc... www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,845,627!
September 17, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,845,627!
#writers #authors Here are some of the things you can do, if you're a human writer, and an AI cannnot. authorspublish.com/were-not-rob...
We’re Not Robots: Why AI Chatbots Can’t Replace Good Writing
by Fiona M JonesI’ll always remember 2023 as the year when the manure hit the rotating blades with regard to AI-generated content.For the first time, AI chatbots showed that they c
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June 27, 2024 at 8:33 PM
#writers #authors Here are some of the things you can do, if you're a human writer, and an AI cannnot. authorspublish.com/were-not-rob...