Mind the gap: Catherine Brady and the...
There is no shortage of books about literary criticism and critical theory. There are also plenty of popular how-to guides for writers. Poking about Blackw...
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Those Guardian Masterclass article li...
Last weekend (Saturday 15 October) The Guardian gave away a free booklet: How to write fiction: A Guardian masterclass with the print edition of the newspape...
A little twitter catch up
I’ve been a tad slack on the Twitter front recently, but I like to keep a record of good writing links around. I still mine my old link round up articles w...
What I learned this week: tell fewer ...
This week my workshop piece received its treatment at the hands of tutor and my fellow students. The story survived the ordeal pretty well, considering the s...
9 steps to prep a story for workshop
It says something for how busy I’ve been that I found this ten day old piece in my queue, unedited and unposted. And that I have no recollection of having wr...
Tom and the unfeasibly large sandwich
My friend and fellow writer Tom described a meeting he attended yesterday for his day job. In fact, it was a call-in affair. While he was wandering a wind-sw...
Welcome to the new Inflatable Ink
Well it’s taken me two years, but I’ve finally got round to moving Inflatable Ink from its temporary home on Blogger to its own Wordpress theme. I have nothi...
Ten writing lessons from a book I did...
Last week I mined a book I hated for some positive lessons I might apply to my own writing. Incidentally, later the same week Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff undertoo...