A Rambling Writer

After the rip-roaring (almost certainly a real word) success of Martyn Beardsley's post about mastering several genres within one career, Martyn has cajoled, threatened and blackmailed me into writing a post about flash fiction for his blog.  Martyn's blog Rambles of a Writer is worth a visit anyway, as he is currently entertaining us with a history of some of our famous phrases, such as 'hoodwinked', 'taken aback' and 'under the thumb'.