Scott Thomson - Author

12/01/2025

This was part of the Lord of the Rings Christmas card that my 10 year old made for me this year.

1. Hilarious!
2. An illustrator in the making?

05/01/2025

Our Northern Ireland New Year adventures included this rope bridge at Carrick-a-Rede (my knees were knocking, let me tell you - heights aren't my thing!)

We expected to be tucked up in bed tonight, but the adventure continues as all roads home are closed ❄️☃️. An impromptu hotel it is, then!

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!

Are you a goal setter? In the past I would have been a really committed goal setter, and would be driven to try to achieve my monthly/yearly/5 yearly goals.

That's fallen by the wayside on recent years, but I'm thinking of taking it up again - I enjoy the focus that it brings.

Do you have any 2025 goals?

25/12/2024

This lovely book Christmas gift for our 6-year-old girl is a delight. Its singsong meter and charming illustrations carry you through a thousand years of history, peppered with fascinating facts about the incredible part the mighty oak plays in its ecosystem.

Another joyful offering from Julia Donaldson, illustrated by

19/12/2024

Hedgehogs are so precious and desperately need protecting. Did you know that British hedgehogs are classified as vulnerable to extinction by the ?

Thanks to for making this lovely graphic of my poem.

17/12/2024

I know it's been an avalanche of posts about this competition of late, but forgive me for being a little excited.

Thrilled to get an honourable mention! And a huge congrats to everyone on the list - I'd heartily recommend you take some time to head to the winners page to read the top 10 entries (including mine): https://www.reneelatulippe.com/winners-winter2024/

Thanks to the marvellous , , and .piccolo_editor for hosting and judging.

This listing has given me such a confidence boost. Writing is a funny old thing, riddled with insecurity, so this has done me the world of good.

15/12/2024

The story isn't over yet: I've made it to the shortlist!

14/12/2024

I'm thrilled to be longlisted for the 1st annual rhyming poetry contest.

I can't yet reveal which is my poem, but I'll share it once I'm allowed.

What an unexpected joy!

02/12/2024

I love a competition with a prompt. Limiting the options for what I can write about somehow opens up my creativity. I've entered this contest - are you thinking of entering?

25/11/2024

Here is my round 1 entry for the NYC Midnight Rhyming Story competition. As a reminder, I was given around 1 week to write a 750 word rhyming story using the following prompts:

Genre: Ghost Story 👻
Theme: It takes two to tango
Emotion: Fascinated

It's far from perfect, but was fun to write!

In round 2, there are 480 writers participating in 15 groups with 32 writers per group. We had 3 days to write a 600 word rhyming story, and my prompts were:

Genre: Fairytale and/or Fantasy
Theme: Sticking to your guns
Emotion: Envy

I won't know results for round 2 until 8th Jan, but I'll let you know how I did - I can post my round 2 story up 10 days after that.

18/11/2024

Last year I took part in the and loved it!

As the picture shows, it's currently happening again. Round 1 took place back in September, and I had the challenge of writing a rhyming story, max 750 words, using the following prompts:

Genre: Ghost Story 👻
Theme: It takes two to tango
Emotion: Fascinated

I had a lot of fun writing it, and was delighted to hear last week that I made it through to round two (finishing 7th in my group). 🎉

The rule is that you are allowed to post your story publicly 10 days after the results of each round are announced, so I'll post my story up here soon.

Watch this space for my story... "Ghost Hunters".

19/09/2024

After a long hiatus from writing (life, innit) I'm throwing myself in the deep end and joining the nycmidnight rhyming story challenge again.

Fancy joining me?

The Rhyming Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create rhyming stories based on three assigned prompts in as little as 48 hours.