Machines in your head: software and f...
In another life, I’m a coder, and I write books about code. As I’ve become more serious about fiction in recent years, I’v...
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Links from the Z-list
Welcome to the Z-list! It’s a bit of a secret round here now, but soon I’ll be launching the Z-list bloggers seminar. Z-list bloggers sometimes ramble...
Some links from the road
I’m on the road in Wales, and on a very dodgy mobile internet connection, so here are the links that grabbed me up until Thursday or so this week. The...
Get to a character’s core with this R...
There are many character questionnaires and exercises out there. I like to interview my characters when I’m stuck, and I have a list of questions I ...
A few links from a busy week
Jonathan Bate is the author of Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford — a one man play to be performed by Simon Callow. In the Guardian this week he wrote...
Runner up in BBC Writers’ Room play c...
Always the bridesmaid I may be, but once again, I’m more than delighted to have made it that far. Actually I’m kind of ecstatic. I heard about the Fiv...
Everyword: Rhetoric and language in t...
On Friday I attended the last workshop of Everyword. Jeanie O’Hare, the RSC’s Company Dramaturg, presented a session on rhetoric in drama. Rhetoric is ...
This week’s links
Another week, another round up. In the Observer Aleks Krotoski interviewed Cory Doctorow, and discussed his practice of publishing under the Creative ...