For those of you who have been debating whether to attend the Emerging Writers’ Festival or not, in a piece of developing news I will be taking the ‘Blog to Where?’ session during the blogging masterclass. From the website, here’s a little more about the day: Take your blogging to the next level. Aimed at…
At the kitchen table, among the fractured rainbow of strewn crayons and sticky notes, they sit together, talking. She has donned the mantle of teacher; he is the willing (for now) pupil, pencil poised and ready, even though words are still being slowly assembled in his written vocabulary. ‘Now, first,’ she says, confident in her…
I’m over at the Emerging Writers’ Festival blog today, talking about my first few months there. Come on over and say hi!
Okay, here we go. I said before Christmas that I admire Anna Funder and wanted to read Stasiland – well, now I have. And all the hype is justified – it’s terrific. I remember when the Berlin Wall fell – it was a month short of my eleventh birthday. As I looked at the news, with the…
My Writers vs Bloggers post last year was extremely popular and as a way of commemorating that a bit – as well as making my own writing load a bit lighter today, literally and metaphorically – I thought I’d expand it just a little and have some fun. Because what’s better than a little schadenfreude? A whole…
I’ve just finished Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes and in hindsight I think I’m relieved I’ve done so without having seen any of the movie adaptations – although I doubt anyone comes to adulthood without discovering the iconic final moments in the Charlton Heston version and what it signifies about what had happened to…
The amazing work of Guy Laramee – making carved landscapes out of books. Go to his website to see the rest. This deliciously sarcastic blog post entitled ‘You’re Bored? That’s so AWESOME!‘ has some nice links to follow if perhaps you find yourself in a similar predicament one day. I’d heard of the mosaic method…
There was a two hour break after the close of yesterday’s sessions at the Digital Parents Conference before the dinner and drinks were scheduled to begin. I went upstairs to change in the bedroom of some girlfriends and I happened to mention something about the day that particularly struck me: the emphasis, as it ever…
I made up this cover collage late the other night and in doing so left off a couple of other titles I’m reading, so I’ll just add those in as we go. As you can probably tell from that first sentence, my reading has been a bit spotty lately. This is surprising as on the…
