14 questions BBC readers will use to ...
The BBC Writers’ Room workshop at EVERYWORD was given by Paul Hardy. The BBC encourage unsolicited scripts. In fact 25% of their radio plays are writte...
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Everyword at the Liverpool Everyman
I’ve been in Liverpool for three months now, and it’s about time I began to get involved in writers’ events. The Everyword new writing festival has bee...
A return to weekly writing links
A return to the round up this week. Though I’m going to try to editorialise a little less, and link a little more. Otherwise compilation will once agai...
How I learned to relax and enjoy a St...
I’m nine stories into StoryADay.org. A challenge to write a story a day in May. Actually, I haven’t written a single story. Unlike some of the challen...
hilobrow.com story posted and tech bo...
Further to my previous post, hilobrow.com have posted my microfiction attempt. The story was selected as one of three finalists in their recent competi...
Finalist in Hilobrow.com short fictio...
After my first attempt at microfiction back in February, I have found myself more and more interested in the form. Not because I believe that’s where I...
Nurse Jackie and the Oblique Pay Off
After a while it becomes second nature to work a scene, or at least a sequence of scenes, to a climax. I find myself thinking in those terms. Marshalli...
A Rebellious Character
My boy Ben had been through a bad few days, and he was feeling pretty low. What’s more it was all his fault. He’d not behaved well, he conceded, and he...