Three types of story
Despite having written a few and studied many more, I don’t think I’ve ever really come to grips with the grammar of the short story. It may be partly due to...
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Bzzzt – decloaking
So there was this Creative Writing MA. Actually there was that MA, and then there was this MA. What I did. Two in a row, for complicated reasons. And I loved...
Jeanette Winterson and the Zombies of...
On Monday 11 November 2013 Jeanette Winterson was interviewed by Andrew Marr on Radio 4’s Start the Week programme. She spoke about a kind of zombie-dom whic...
Your leased future
I mentioned a while back that I’ll be folding my Bookshape blog into this one over the coming weeks. This is my first new Bookshape post. Two articles about...
Analysing Boojum
I’m primarily working on a novel at the moment, but I’m also increasingly interested in the form and structure of the short story . I’ve taken to reading and...
Day jobs and writing
Well, it’s been a month since my ten days of blogging. Am I rested? Well not really, because I’ve spent the time catching up with all sorts of writing and da...
Day 10 (Day 10)
It’s day 10 of my solo Back to Blogging Challenge. Whew. As soon as you commit to something it’s guaranteed that everything else in your life will go crazy....
Friday check in (Day 9)
Today I hit a writing wall. It’s not so much a block as a realisation that I could go on indefinitely in my current direction because I like to describe the ...