The WHOLE Waffle-Free Storytelling Podcast, from start to now…

How it started...

A few years ago, I was locked in the grips of writer’s block. It wasn’t that I couldn’t or wasn’t writing; it was that I wasn’t writing anything I liked, and I certainly wasn’t publishing.

Part of my “Get Out Of Jail” mission included looking for a storytelling podcast where I could lose myself. I looked for weeks, but every podcast I found had minutes and minutes of jibber-jabber before the story, by which point I’d lost interest. After a string of such shows, I flung my arms in the air (sending my phone across the room) and said to my somewhat bewildered dogs: “Enough with the waffle!!!”

And so, The Waffle-Free Storytelling Podcast was born.

The first six stories I found were traditional tales I loved. Then I realised it would take as long to find stories I loved as it would to write new, original tales myself. And that’s what happened.

Since then, except for a few breaks here and there, a new waffle-free story (written and told by yours truly, unless otherwise stated) has been posted every Saturday. After a while, those stories found their way into books, and the Waffle-Free Collection began. It was at that point I looked around me and said, “Oh My Wow…I’m out, I’m free, I’m writing again.”