Category: Writers’ Forum

Short Story. The Butterfly Effect

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In my Idea Store column in the current issue of Writers’ Forum, I’m talking about The Butterfly Effect, which is (in an over-simplified form) how something that seems small and inconsequential at the time can sometimes have huge and unforeseen consequences.

Here, as promised in the article is my short story, The Butterfly Effect, which I wrote on the same theme.

And if you want to find out what Robert Crouch’s unforeseen consequences were and you can’t get hold of a copy of Writers’ Forum, you can find the answer here on his website.  

Link here.  https://robertcrouch.co.uk/the-blog-that-changed-my-writing-life

The Butterfly Effect

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Where does crime writer David J Gatward get his ideas?

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I am delighted to welcome David Gatward to my blog this week.  I recently featured him in my Idea Store column in Writers’ Forum and I was anxious to find out more about this author whose output has left me full of admiration, both for its quantity and quality.

I was first attracted to David’s books when I read that his current series of crime novels featured Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales, a part of the world I love as we had many happy family holidays there when my children were little.

In the past two years David has published TEN books in his excellent DCI Harry Grimm series and it opens with Harry Grimm arriving – very reluctantly – from Somerset to take up his new post in the area.  

Me.

Welcome to my blog, David and thank you for agreeing to be featured.  Thank you, too, for reminding me how very much I love the Yorkshire Dales and how it is high time I went back there.

I’m intrigued to know how you managed to produce such a great series in such a short time.

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