So you want to be a writer? Picturing long, quiet days tapping away at a keyboard and sipping endless cups of tea? The odd walk in the park to clear ...
This week, as the weather started to actually reflect the season we are in, I found myself cycling to work to the wonderfully fun sounds of The Go! Team. The ...
For my dissertation at university, I did a comparative investigation of four of my favorite books of fiction and their big screen adaptations: Lolita, Revolutionary Road, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Raymond ...
Pushing myself to try new things is one of the most important exercises as a writer. For me it is like skateboarding, I spent ages learning how to ollie and ...
This post has taken a little while to write because it has taken me a while to decide if I should write it at all. I wanted to write about ...
The last couple of weeks have all been about writing and publishing etc, but there is something that is so at the core of writing that I almost forgot about ...
Inevitably, every story acceptance is accompanied by multiple rejections; sometimes a story will be accepted first time, sometimes there will be a re-write request and sometimes the story will be ...
Getting published Towards the end of my time in Cambridge I got the email I’d been waiting and hoping for. The magazine I’d sent the moth story to wanted to ...
My time spent in Cambridge was a catalyst for more than just improving my writing, it was also an important time for my photography. I have been taking photos with ...
I was asked to look after a friend’s house for a couple of months. He lived in Cambridge, a city I had never been to, and he had a garden ...
The first stories I tried to write and the book that started it all: continuing the brief history that foretells the work I am currently writing. One night I couldn’t ...
I’ve written a few blogs before in recent years on different topics and the thing I’ve always found difficult is starting it off. Do I do the whole, ‘Hello reader, ...
