My writing accountability partner has already checked in with and I have set the goal of writing 750 words over the next two weeks. Covid put paid to any earlier celebrations and so I hope this weekend goes well. Organise and execute Austin’s birthday weekend including his first EVER birthday party.A place to write down my intentions for the month, be they ambitious or simple. If I can use the blog as a memory-keeping tool, I can also use it for my goal-setting. As I was reflecting back on January for my last post, I realised that my blog was the best way to see not only what I had been doing but what I had been thinking about, planning, hoping for, and wondering. It was a way for me to keep track of the everyday as well as the exceptional events. When I started blogging way back in 2008, I use my blog as a memory-keeping tool. Agent: Doug Stewart, Sterling Lord Literistic.I am not going to be writing every day on here but I do want to maintain a somewhat regular writing habit as I have really enjoyed engaging with my blog again and I hope you have enjoyed it too. Though Joyce envisions an intriguing realm nestled against our own, what’s most compelling are his characters’ chaotic emotions and reconnections as they struggle to cope with what they can’t understand. As Tara accepts counseling with an eccentric psychiatrist and a stranger lurks about, Peter and Richie begin to wonder if her fantastical story may actually hold some truth. The two men haltingly take up their friendship where it left off, and Richie realizes that he still loves Tara. Peter breaks a 10-year silence with his former best friend, Richie Franklin, who as Tara’s boyfriend at the time of her disappearance was the main suspect, to let him know that Tara’s back. When 35-year-old Tara Martin shows up on her parents’ doorstep two decades after she disappeared, unkempt and looking oddly as if she’s barely aged, her older brother, Peter, a farrier married with four kids, can’t hide his hurt, angry feelings-but they grow even stronger when Tara offers a preposterous story about riding away with a man on a white horse as an explanation for her disappearance.

Joyce (The Silent Land) blends reality with fantasy in this modern-day fable.

The silent land by graham joyce aqa