Lunchtimes at the library
The recent #rememberingmylibrary hashtag has stuck with me, much in the same way that library memories themselves do. Libraries have a church-like aspect - w...
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14 Questions the BBC have used to ass...
Poking through some old files this week, I came across some notes I put together from the 2010 Everyword festival at the Liverpool Everyman. Aimed at scrip...
Ancient sports day: the mystifying sp...
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...
Three kinds of short story (repost)
Despite having written a few and studied many more, I don’t think I’ve ever really come to grips with the grammar of the short story. It may be partly due ...
Three Good Things: despair and consol...
I’m starting an occasional series this week I’m calling Three Good Things. This is by no means an idea I’ve borrowed from a cookery writer. Absolutely not....
Starting a writers’ group
I’m the founder of a writers’ group in Salt Lake City that has 534 members called Just Write: Salt Lake City. Using Meet Up it was pretty easy to create th...
Turn your example code into a pantomi...
Have you ever been called out on a code example because it just wouldn’t work in the real world? It’s happened to me a few times and gradually I’ve learned...
Auditioning my next novel
I have been working on my novel ROSALIND for more years than I care to admit. There have been shaky times – several complete rewrites come to mind. And som...