It’s another two weeks until our writing group get together again, but knowing how often I leave writing my piece until the last minute, maybe having forgotten about it, or being muddled with the date of meeting. or being in a crisis because I can’t think of anything to write, I decided I would – for once, be ahead of the game. The title/topic/suggestion is “What I did last summer” – or was it “What I did on my summer holidays” – it was something about summer, or summer holidays, and was a play on the sort of English homework we would be set the first week of the new term. As usual, at the end of the last writing group meeting, we were stumped trying to think of a suggestion for next time, when one of our number had a brilliant idea. She suggested the title of one of her own books – “What I did on my holidays” – so there, I have it, the topic to write to, and not necessarily anything to do with summer.
“What I did on my holidays: how to survive with nothing but a travel iron and a cuddly bunny” is written by my friend Fenja Hill and you can find it on Amazon. This is the blurb:
How would you cope if you were washed up on an uninhabited island after your flight had crashed into the sea? Would you have a shelter built and a fire going by the end of the first day? Probably not. Real life is not like the books and films we have read and watched, which our heroine is about to find out.
Fenja is a great writer, but I should mention that some of her stories are somewhat if not very dark! Another way of reading this story is to be Fenja’s short story collection in which it also appears: “Nightwriting: A collection of short stories written in the early hours of the morning”
My featured image is from the early days of our friendship, in Waterstones where we first ever met, and Fenja is cuddling her grandson who is now six!
Lois Elsden 