The Desk of Karen Lee Field

I’m so happy to announce that the website is finally working. I’ve chosen to use Jekyll, which I’m new to so the coding is unfamiliar to me. I had a devil of a time getting things to work properly. Everytime I fixed an issue, it broke something else. I was getting close to giving up. But I didn’t and now I have a working, custom Jekyll website.

Over the past little while, my website has been undergoing a complete rebuild — new structure, new layout, new navigation, and a much cleaner way to explore everything I write. It’s been a big job behind the scenes, but I’m delighted to say the new version of The Desk of Karen Lee Field is now live. Although it has a long way to go before it’s finished.

Editing is where a story truly comes to life. It’s the stage where rough ideas sharpen into clear moments, characters deepen, and pacing finds its rhythm. Here are five simple editing tips that can strengthen any story:

I have been into gaming since time began … or since gaming began, at least. I have all the PlayStation consoles (PS1 through to PS4) and I have over a thousand games. I’m not joking.

Rosewood Lane is a horror/thriller movie starring Rose ~McGowan and Daniel Ross Owens.

Recently, while on holiday, we came across The Hunger Games DVD in a quaint little shop. It was quite cheap and we couldn’t pass on the opportunity to buy it.

We recently sat down and watched Battleship starring Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna and Liam Neeson. It is described as “an epic action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force”.

Apart from knowing this movie was taken from a book, I knew nothing about it when I pressed the “start” button on the DVD, so I was in for a pleasant surprise. The story is told by a fourteen year old girl who has been murdered – don’t worry this isn’t a spoiler, as the viewer is told this piece of information within the first minute of the movie starting. What followed is different and unusual, and quite captivating. By the time the movie had finished, I had wished I’d read the book instead as they are always so much better and if the movie was good, then I could only imagine how great the book would be. Maybe I’ll get the opportunity to find out in the future.