Gamifying Character Development
This is a tie-in with my latest YouTube video about a roll-the-dice game for writers to use in developing fictional characters.
Film Festival Highlights: Winter, Orkney, Bird
My highlights from the 2025 Gotheburg Film Festival, from the end of January to beginning of February – in cinemas and on-line.
My writerly resolutions and how I keep them
Do you make New Year Resolutions? In this post, published Monday on the website of my Writers’ Group, I share my writerly resolutions – and the secret of how I keep them.
From Cold Comfort to a Swim in a Pond – books read in 2024
My annual round up of all the books I read in 2024, from Cold Comfort Farm to A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.
Another New Year, another new plan
My annual post about writing (and other creativity) resolutions for the coming year, and a look back on my plan and what I achieved in 2024.
Merry Christmas and Happy 2025
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and my best wishes for 2025. Here’s hoping it won’t be quite as interesting as it’s shaping up to be. (Thinking of the supposedly Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.)
The 12 best poetry titles of 2024 (that I want to read next year)
My ‘best poetry in 2024’ list, for reading in 2025: why I make it, how I make it and where I find the books I eventually buy.
The Coming Crises and the Ways to War
The latest edition of Sweden’s civil defence brochure ‘In case of crisis or war’ is the inspiration for this week’s blog post
No No NaNo: the spurning of NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo is an international writing challenge that takes place in November – the National Novel Writing Month. This year has been a difficult one for the organisers.
Found Stories in Brussels
Found stories in Brussels – stories found in Brussels during our recent return visit in September . One printed, one written, one remembered.