D.S. Williams

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  • Thoughts from the dark side…

    Boy. Every time I think I’ve delayed putting up a blog post by months, I manage to break my own record. (And no, that’s not something I’m particularly pleased about.) I join you in something of a world gone mad – as Coronavirus spreads across the world, I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve actually found Continue reading

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  • Five Minute Fiction

    (I’ve placed this under five minute fiction, but there’s a lot of truth which cuts close the bone in this short burst.) “Are you okay?” It was a question I’d been asked half a dozen times so far today, and each time I’d repeated the same simple response.  “I’m okay.” Except I probably wasn’t.  My Continue reading

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  • Yep, I’m still alive…

    I hadn’t realized just how long it had been since I wrote a blog post, until I checked on this page today.  2019 is one of those years which has gotten totally out of control, not least because the DH (upon our arrival in Queensland in January for a new posting) had no sooner arrived Continue reading

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  • A Change of Pace

    I’ve been considering this situation for quite some time. Being bipolar means my ‘feels’ are sometimes exploded beyond what is rational, my decisions are spur of the moment, and taken without thought of the ramifications. So it is with no small amount of consideration that I’ve come to this decision, a decision based on what Continue reading

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  • It started with a snowball… in her gloved hand…

    Pheweee.  It’s amazing what you come across when you’re editing a first draft, stuff you didn’t even realise you were writing.  Or repeating for that matter. In Tokens of My Confection, which is heading towards publication in (hopefully) the not too distant future, one scene involves my heroine Cady, who is hanging out with her Continue reading

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