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.
The middle weekend of August, I attended the Stockholm Writers’ Festival (SWF) for 2023. As luck would have it, I was at the same time reading my very first Stephen King book. The post I wrote from this happy confluence of events I published on the website of my writers’ group, Pens Around the World. … More…
My current pleasure is viewing YouTube films presenting property for sale in different parts of Europe, and dreaming myself into the films.
Looking for a new way to describe myself, having found ‘wannabe author’ is no longer appropriate, I’m trying on ’emerging author’ for size.
Things will be changing at TheSupercargo in tandem with changes in my life as I retire from paid work and use my time to create more of what I want.
I’m using the character checklist from Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing to plot the characters in my novel-in-progress.
A short promo piece pointing you on to my interview with Catherine Pettersson, the driving force behind the Stockholm Writers Festival, published on the Pens Around the World website earlier this week.
An article about props – properties and supports – as I continue trying to create YouTube videos about social media and the author.
The story behind the story of “Tea with the Hatter”, published last week. A hatter got in touch and asked for a copy on a poster.
Still working to increase my social media presence, I’m in serious difficulties as I struggle to create my first YouTube film.
More social media than you can shake a stick at – that’s the truth! Using social media is popular and increasing, here are some statistics.