Ancient sports days (Day 8)
Somehow the sports gene passed me by. It’s not that I don’t like exercise — I have to run at least every other day, or I feel even more crabby and irritable ...
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From the craft books: Premise (Day 7)
“So, what’s it about?” This can be a strangely perplexing question when you’re sunk deep in the writing process. Sometimes the only answer available to me i...
Just generally checking in (Day 5)
No article or story for today’s Back to Blogging challenge post. More of a check in, really. It’s hot here in the UK, and various freelance issues overtook ...
Flash fiction: Companion Animal (Day 4)
Neil Gaiman guest edited the the Guardian Book Site a couple of weeks ago and set a challenge: write a super short story that begins with: It wasn’t just th...
You are about to read this post (day 3)
You are about to read a blog post about second person narrative address. The very phrase makes your eyes heavy and you wander to your bed and have a little l...
Tragedy and Celebrity (Day 2)
The Guardian reported yesterday on a speech by Frank Cottrell Boyce (winner of the 2012 Guardian children’s fiction prize and Professor of Reading at Liverpo...
Caution and the Back to Blogging Chal...
On Monday 5 November 2012 I wrote this in a file named ‘InflableInk-blog’: “I get into a spiral around blogging. The less I do, the less I do.. It’s a bi...
Fingerprinting e-books
At The Guardian James Bridle reports on a plan to automatically alter the text of digital books in order to foil piracy after the fact. This involves making ...