Sarah's extensive poetry and short story publications and competition successes.

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This short piece should help people find their way round the various categories of my blog so they can get the most of the many posts on offer.

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These days the snow refuses to melt. And when you walk across the crusty whiteness, you leave no footprints. It is not that you are carried by Jesus, as the poem suggests he carries one across the quicksands, snowstorms and other rocky terrain. No, there are no footprints because you have become weightless, insubstantial. You only know you still exist because you can feel the snow's cold wetness. And because you have memories.

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This section of short (300 words) fiction is inspired by Lynne Rees's and Sarah Salway's experimental writing Messages Project. More details about this project can be found here. Throughout November 2007, they posted a daily 300 word piece of writing and asked writers to make any link they liked to create a 300 word response. My responses may be found here. I tried to make each one work as a single piece of fiction read on its own and also when read with the original message that inspired it.

Being a good diligent writer, I sat down recently to do some research for a poem I was planning to write. The inspiration for the poem was a theme and I had only one idea for this theme, which was why I required the background reading.

I Googled a few terms on the internet, pulled up, read and printed numerous relevant web pages. So where's the irony? Well, having done all this, I actually ended up being inspired to write a completely different take on the theme, which required none of the reasearch I'd done! Still, at least the process stimulated my creative Muse!