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What might have happened if R Kelly had been a member of a writer’s workshop
In today’s writing workshop, we’re going to look at R Kelly’s Ignition (remix) I enjoyed reading this piece of work and can certainly see that there’s a rhythm to the way you use words. I particularly liked the bouncing, tooting and … Continue reading
What is crime fiction?
This week, on a course about Crime Fiction, we were asked the question ‘what is crime fiction?’ You’d have thought we’d know, since we’d signed up for a fairly significant chunk of education on the subject, but it was harder … Continue reading
The Ugly Truth of Publishing & How BEST to Support Writers
Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:
Original Image via Flickr Creative Commons, courtesy of Anurag Agnihotri Well, I figure I have one more day to drunkenly torch my platform. Sad thing is I don’t drink. I am apparently this…
THE TROLL at Christmas: Post 2
My apologies, folks. I had promised to post this yesterday and ended up out with friends for most of the day and all evening. So here it is now. Chapter 1 of the the first novella in my TROLL series. … Continue reading
The Troll at Christmas
If you are a regular reader of this blog, or my facebook and twitter feeds, then you won’t have been able to miss that, this year, I wrote and published a trilogy of thriller novellas called THE TROLL. What you might not know is … Continue reading
So, you want to be a writer?
I came across a video on YouTube today, a TED talk by Nathan Filer that pretty much said everything about writing a first novel that I would ever want to say. It’s perfect. You can watch it yourself, below. But … Continue reading
Pigs, trolls and other stories
Okay, so I was hoping to bring out my third book in THE TROLL series of novellas on a slow news day. Just goes to show you can’t plan these things… In a way, though, it’s apt, with the whole … Continue reading
Protecting us from the threats of poetry
Today I read the prime minister’s ‘vision for a smarter state’ and, as I glanced across the page, I misread a line about how he intended to protect us from ‘terrorism, poetry and climate change’. It actually said poverty, which … Continue reading
