A poem for a theatre’s accounts depar...
Yesterday was Poetry Day. My partner is Finance Director of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, and she wanted a poem for the organisation’s internal newsl...
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Am I back?
Ahem. Should have been writing today. Did a bit of surfing. So anyway. Here are some of the things I’ve been reading today (a lot of them courtesy of Poets ...
1 thing I learned this week: somethin...
I have a deadline this week, and my future-space-sex-bot-love-story won’t write itself. So I’ve not learned much this week, apart maybe from those near invis...
7 things I learned this week: Thatche...
Here we go again. Oh damn, and it’s gone wrong already. I was all set to reaffirm my 90s preference for Blur (posh boys with talent) over Oasis (working cla...
7 things I learned this week. Languag...
I spend a lot of time studying and researching. And, let’s face it, a lot of the rest of my time idly clicking from link to link to link. I come across many ...
NaNoWriMo: When all else fails.. go m...
At the time of writing, my NaNoWriMo effort stands at 38500 words. So I’m in with a chance even though my plan fell apart like a wet pizza sometime into the ...
Flash fiction: Action Required
Over at Terribleminds Chuck Wendig laid down a flash fiction challenge inspired by Occupy Writers: a 1000 word story on corporate abuse – any genre. Mine was...
Larry Brooks’ story structure diagram
In preparation for NaNoWriMo, I have been reading Story Engineering by Larry Brooks. It’s a useful book, especially when it comes to pinning down story struc...