John Dudley
ALWAYS CREATING
My best wishes to you for the New Year in 2026. This is the script of my first my first attempt at a YouTube podcast. I’ll slip in an a link to the video as well. There are no bells and whistles and you should be able to listen to the audio without the video … More…
I’m just back from the Stockholm Writers Festival 2025, three packed days at the Swedish National History Museum. This is my attempt to capture the experience before the details blur.
A review of Washington Black by Esi Edugyan. Some novels carry you across continents; others leave you suspended between questions. Washington Black attempts both …
Finding my Schrödinger’s scratch card from last Easter reminded me of the first successful gambler I ever knew. I imagine a conversation.
This is a tie-in with my latest YouTube video about a roll-the-dice game for writers to use in developing fictional characters.
My highlights from the 2025 Gotheburg Film Festival, from the end of January to beginning of February – in cinemas and on-line.
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.
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.
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.
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.)