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 ...
In this day and age, when we’re being constantly brainwashed by poppy tunes emanating from every possible audio device, it’s easy to forget that song writing is an art form, ...
In Act II, Scene II of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the young lovers call into question the importance of our given prenomens, with Juliet questioning “What’s in a name? That ...
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 ...
For many writers, winning an award will be the crowning moment of their career: much needed proof that all the sleepless nights, hours of hard-work and effort spent editing and ...
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, ...
Until recently, the self-publication of books was considered unusual, but now we are either homing back to the start of things, which is exciting, or the publishing world has exploded ...
With the death of the wonderful Amy Winehouse over the weekend, I am not alone in writing about addiction and the battle of the artistic mind to find its ‘flow’. ...
The genre of travel writing has become something of a sore spot for many travel writers. Admitting to being one or enjoying the genre itself has become as much of ...
I experienced a revelatory and yet slightly embarrassing moment a few weeks ago. I was walking home with a good-looking boy from my creative writing class and we were discussing ...
Last Thursday I handed in my creative writing dissertation. The product of four long months of hard work, seven packets of chocolate covered digestive biscuits, and one notebook. By the ...
I’ve been having trouble coming up with ideas for this article. It’s my first piece for this new blog, after all, so the pressure is on to make a good ...
I bought a new diary today. One of my New Year’s resolutions, probably like thousands of other people across the country, was to get into the discipline of writing a ...
