Having returned somewhat damp from my holiday in the sunny (not) Pennines. (In the good old UK, for those without an adequate sound geographic education). I swiftly put on my writing hat and got stuck in.

I beavered away, sweat on brow, fingers aching from the strain, brain doing cartwheels as I tried to second guess what my several avid readers would want from me. I was worried that my stories would be buried under an avalanche of good quality stories.

I woke up late at night screaming after having a nightmare where my stories were put up on the site, only to disappear under the sheer weight of new top notch stuff and falling to the bottom of the pile quicker than certain banks share prices.

Looking at the current stories, the said top notch stuff is there, but not in the vast quantities that I had hoped for.

Hence my query about the dreaded lurgi. Maybe it could be writers cramp or God forbid THE BLOCK? Is there some nasty invidious virus seeping up from our keyboards rendering our creativity null and void?

Being British I, of course, have a stiff upper lip and that may give me some resistance to the dreaded writing malaise. Angharad, being Welsh (I think) probably does something with the wild leaks roaming the hill and valleys in packs.

Others may use garlic or other natural things to ward off the writers block, who knows. What I do know is that we need more stories. So all of you other girls, get writing and lets have more stuff to read!

Perish the thought, I was even tempted to brush off my paperback edition of War and Peace last night and I have even contemplated reading Herman Neville's Moby Dick, being that desperate for reading material.

So get writing girls; your public needs you!

*Explanation of The Dreaded Lurgi http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dre1.htm

or if you are really interested in The Goons; http://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/lurgi.html