Fiona M Jones

How Do You Know When There's a Dead Body in the Room How do you know when there is a dead body in the room? Check out Fiona Jones article on our Burial Books blog to find out!

I will always remember a book that doesn't make sense to me. burialbooks.com/how-do-you-k...

A82 — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place By Fiona M Jones The snowgates open in spring, giving access across the Highlands towards Fort William.

I have often been Elsewhere. This time, it's along the A82, watching the forces of nature rewriting the landscape. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

Horrible Dreams Horrible Dreams is a new article by Fiona Jones on Burial Books website. Check out the article and get some insight into an author's head!

What to do with your worst nightmares: write them into a story. burialbooks.com/horrible-dre...

Where Do You Put Children in Horror Stories Where do you put children in horror stories as an author? Check out the article by Fiona Jones on Burial Books website!

Children and horror stories: do they mix? burialbooks.com/where-do-you...

The Carrot Waltz It has always been a mystery to me: how do farmers manage to grow carrots that are perfectly straight, single-rooted, and almost uniform in shape and size, when carrots, given  …

Food Gardening Network have taken quite a few of my family gardening stories. Here's the latest to come up: foodgardening.mequoda.com/articles/the...

It’s Political This is a writing blog. Me, a writer, writing about what I’m learning about writing-related matters. Which kinds of books I like/don’t like and why; what I really think about semicolons…

A political post: fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/i...

Choeofpleirn Press - Harvest Harmony Because we want to promote a national consumption of literature, we are creating a new kind of poetry-meme through our online zines. Contestants should send us their previously unpublished 12-line po...

This summer/autumn I have picked 108kg of blackberries just in and around my town. www.choeofpleirnpress.com/harvest-harm...

A long, long time ago, back in the 1900s, when kids had wax crayons instead of tablets, and colouring-in was a thing.

Hi Blueys, can I have a few shares on this please? It's only my personal blog, but if you agree with me, please give it a push; and if you don't agree, well by all means take your courage in both hands and argue in favour of electronic devices. fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/j...

Blogging away from home today: streetlightmag.com/2025/07/14/w...

The Unreliable Narrator and the Ghost Car I am an Unreliable Narrator. If you’ve ever read or written stories, you’ll have met the Unreliable Narrator technique, wherein the author knows what’s happening and the character…

The Story of the Unreliable Narrator and the Ghost Car: fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/u...

What's the moral of this story? entropy2.com/blogs/100wor...

I have a paragraph here today: www.paragraphplanet.com

Girls Don’t Talk About Chess I’m feeling vaguely ashamed again, and as usual I don’t quite know why. I think I must have overstepped a subtle social barrier, plunged myself into the usual minority of one. Here’s what...

Am I right? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...

March 32nd Unfortunately I’m not teaching today, so I won’t get to April-fool the young and not-quite-innocent. I’m at home on my sofa, or thereabouts, nursing a broken collarbone—a seatbelt injury from a car…

Merry 32nd March, everyone! fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/m...

Remember Your Why What do you do when your children ask too many questions? Maybe it’s natural curiosity; maybe it’s for a school project; maybe they’re concerned about something they’ve heard, and they’re...

I am SO TIRED of people bragging about how they've bought a chatbot to replace them in interacting with their children. Why have children then? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...

When the Moon Rhymes with June… Once upon a very, very long time ago, people read the works of Milton, Longlace, Donne et al, and decided to try writing poetry too. Anyone with any pretensions to a stylish education could dabble …

When someone tells you a chatbot has written a "poem", but then you look at the "poem" and it's no better than a highschooler's homework... fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/w...

Drowning I’m looking back to when I had babies, thinking of the things I wasn’t prepared for. The sheer weight of responsibility, knowing that what you do and don’t do makes a real and lifelong...

Are your children drowning in plastic? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...

What Would Shakespeare Do? What do you do when something ought to be a word but isn’t yet? You’re typing in something you’ve written, and a little red line appears under it. You’re supposed to humbly …

Where are the writers on Bluesky, and which of them will agree with me and write whatever words they need to write? fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/w... #writing #writers #words

Who'd like to read a nice little Christmas story?https://everydayfiction.com/a-christmas-wish-fiona-m-jones/

We Need to Talk about Moss We need to talk about moss. We need to talk about all things green, everything that terraforms the planet, tames the rage of wind and water, gathers carbon out of air and feeds the biosphere. We have....

Are you one of those people who blast the moss off your stonework and burn it out of your grass with toxic chemicals? www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...

River Tweed — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place By Fiona M. Jones Whose woods these are I think I know, or at least whose woods these were, but the river flowing down below cares not whose land is whose, not yet whose trees are these and whose are...

St Boswells, Scottish Borders. Or thereabouts. www.elsewhere-journal.com/latest-issue...

Nice ankles on that one, presumably.

Name a Dinosaur Name a dinosaur. Any dinosaur. Why does nearly everyone say Tyrannosaurus Rex? Why does he get all the attention? What’s he ever done for us apart from stomping around very, very heavily and...

Name a dinosaur. Any dinosaur. For research purposes. www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...

I write short things. And very short things. This is my website: fionamjones.wordpress.com and you can see some of my stories, but most of my stuff is behind paywalls or subscription walls.

When people ask me to write recipes...https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/things-i-cant-read-or-write/

Life is Rubbish - Black Hare Press by Fiona M. Jones “Damien.” It was the Enemy. “What—” Damien dodged away, throwing chairs to slow the Enemy’s advance. He needed to level up, exchange the bread knife in his jacket for a machete. He h...

"Life is Rubbish": www.blackharepress.com/life-is-rubb...

Next cartoon: Earth, Air, Fire and Water taking their revenge...

It must have been lonely, wondering if anyone would join and follow you.

Is Planning the Best Plan? I’m not saying I hate being a teacher, but there are some things I really, really hate teaching. And one of them is The Writing Lesson. Yes, that’s right: I’m a literary writer, and I dread...

What schoolchildren REALLY need to do, when they're feeling inspired to write a story, is to stop and fill out a formal Planning Page stating characters, setting and story arc... www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out...