The Next Big Author and YouWriteOn
About the Next Big Author February 2012 Writing Competition and the YouWriteOn site. Also briefly about my writing March 2012.
At the Quill
At the Quill: About creative writing in my experience and practice. Also posts about independent authorship and self-publishing. Read Creative Writing and Independent Authorship for more details or scroll down.
Here be Dragons – Writing Diary
A review of my writing for February 2012, but mosty about using Dragon NaturallySpeaking dictation and voice reconition software.
Writing review: Resolutions 2012
A review of my writing during January 2012 with reference to my writing resolutions. Not bad: could do better.
Persperistance II
November is the cruelest month – the days get shorter, darker, duller, and my pleasure, delight and creativity, spirals away down a plughole.
Persperistance
Three reasons why submitting your creative writing for publication to an edited web site or print journal is a good thing. Some pointers and a discussion of Ray Bradbury’s d.i.y. authorship method.
When is a Novelist … ?
Review of Granta number 113 discussing the definition of novelist contra short-story writer and the difficulties of anthologising novelists.
Inger Edelfeldt’s Writing Process
Why Swedish author Inger Edelfeldt abandoned the historical novel she started writing, and how difficult I’m finding it writing my own.
Pay the Writer!
Would Dr Samuel Johnson have agreed with SF writer Harlan Ellison? No one but a fool ever wrote for anything but money!
Millisent versus Cohiba
Comparative review of “Millisent Ka Plays in Realtime” by Jason Sanford and “Cohiba” by Lucia Puenzo, short stories in Interzone and Granta respectively.
Together in Cordoba – the complete picture
Poem and illustration produced as my contribution to an Internet-based co-operative project.