Just before I begin my winter’s hibernation (I’m planning a lock down in January to draft my next novel), I feel obliged to try to recreate the success of my ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ blog-blitz of 2014. Last week, I was going through my folders of dead books and found something I began as aContinue reading “The Story for Christmas 2015”
Tag Archives: Creative Writing
A Surreal Little Easter Story
My bone china coffee cup sank through the breakfast table. Strange when you see it: the lack of resistance; wood veneer a thick syrup. It lasted just a moment, but the cup had submerged to the handle when the world pulled solid again, a listing little boat caught between a tomato ketchup buoy and theContinue reading “A Surreal Little Easter Story”
Six Indispensible Things You’ll Need to be a ‘Pro’ Writer
After years of research, I finally have a definitive list: 1) A word processor. Apple is preferred, but Windows and Linux based options make you look like you’ve suffered for your art, rather than been gifted a fifteen hundred quid PC. Whether you buy it, get given it or nick it, no writer can liveContinue reading “Six Indispensible Things You’ll Need to be a ‘Pro’ Writer”
Writing The Damn Synopsis!
I’ve been quiet for a while, trying to finish the first draft of my novel, almost dreading the moment it would be finished, because then – like all novelists- I face that dreaded Armageddon of Self-Belief when I have to write the synopsis. Many would say I’m now returning to the blog only because IContinue reading “Writing The Damn Synopsis!”
The Drummers Drumming (Day 12 of 12)
Now that the plumbing is unblocked, thanks to eleven highly trained exponents of the plumbing art, I can allow myself a short pause, mid cast-party, to review the triumphs of the eleven days I have masterminded in pursuit of my true love’s happiness: Frozen partridges have been nailed to pear trees; Doves have been paintedContinue reading “The Drummers Drumming (Day 12 of 12)”
