Life After Lockdown — A Year On

Published on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 by Tabatha Wood Category: mental health, personal thought

I turned forty-one last year in the middle of lockdown, alert level 4, and it was one of the best birthdays I’d ever had...

Notebooks

Published on April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 by Tabatha Wood Category: personal thought, positive mental health

Writing in a new notebook feels like a strange parallel to your life. The first page, of course, will always be the best; the cleanest and neatest, the one with the most promise.

Evolution of an Idea — Craft & Design

Published on February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 by Tabatha Wood Category: Crafts

Sometimes I get ideas for things from totally random places, other times they come from things I have seen or read or heard. I want to share with you the process of one of my recent ideas – just to show how long it can take from my having the original idea for a piece, until it becomes real.

So You Think You Want To Be A Writer?

Published on February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 by Tabatha Wood Category: personal thought

A dear friend of mine who has been writing since the 1980s once told me that there are no rules when it comes to writing. "A writer only writes for themselves and does their best to create the books they want to read."

The Battle for the Best Movie Ever Made

Published on January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 by Tabatha Wood Category: essays

I started 2021 with an online feud, one which had been brewing for a while. It began as an innocent and innocuous tweet, as these things often do, as to which movie was the better one: Aliens (James Cameron, 1986) or RoboCop? (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)

Life Journaling

Published on December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 by Tabatha Wood Category: positive mental health

As pretty much everyone else has said in their yearly roundups and reviews, 2020 was, to put it mildly, a bit rubbish. One of the best things I did this year was to start outlining monthly goals and tracking data with a Life Journal.

2020 Round Up

Published on December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 by Tabatha Wood Category: Creative Writing

I had big plans for 2020. Yeah, I know, me and everybody else, right? But I really did... And then… everything went to Hell in a hand basket.

A Regular, Normal Christmas

Published on December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 by Tabatha Wood Category: Creative Writing

My final story of 2020: DIE HARD meets Hallmark (kinda) in this crazy, tongue-in-cheek holiday mashup. Content warning: contains profanities, PG13.

THE WAR ON BLANK-PAGE TERROR: a personal approach to scriptwriting by Jamie Delano

Published on December 4, 2020December 12, 2020 by Tabatha Wood Category: interview, original fiction, personal thought

All writers must confront that blank-page terror. Daily. Unless they’re soulless hacks content to shovel junk food. Feed undiscerning appetites with fast-fiction plotted by committee. At least I assume they do. I speak only from my own experience. - Jamie Delano

New Release – Poetry Chapbook

Published on November 27, 2020December 12, 2020 by Tabatha Wood Category: Creative Writing

Around this time last year I released RISE, a collection of poems about motherhood, family, old friends, spiritual journeys and the sea. This year is the turn of BEACH GLASS & OLD BONES, poems with a strong focus on belonging, becoming and mental health. Both ePubs are, and always will be, free on Smashwords. https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/tabathawood