Do you know I just got a shock as I wrote that and then matched up the date: February is almost over. I wasn’t paying attention. Well, apart from the extra reading I’m now doing for work, I’ve also been borrowing a lot of books, dipping in and out of them at my leisure. The…
I’m really happy to be able to share with you some news today: I have been appointed as Program Manager at the Emerging Writers’ Festival. I’ve written a little more about it over at the EWF blog if you’d like to hear a little more. 2012 is off to a racing start!
(No vlog this month on account of my sore mouth and our internet being drastically shaped. It would take ten weeks to upload any video to YouTube at the moment.) 1. Cat’s Cradle – Alas, unfinished. I think it’s because I loved Slaughterhouse Five so much and this is quite different in tone (even more…
One of my writing buddies, Mark Welker, made the above video and I’ll let him describe it: Untold numbers of manuscripts are started, finished, and abandoned at the antique desks of Varuna House. There is always a cup of tea on the boil, a well stocked jar of chocolate biscuits, and enough creative space to…
Like last year, I’m participating in this year’s Month of Poetry – writing a poem every day for January. I said something similar last month when I guest posted over at Problogger, but I do believe the more you stretch and push yourself creatively the more accustomed you become to the exercise. I won’t say…
I devoured this book in about two days and in this time would not shut up about it to my nearest and dearest. Really, with big saucer eyes and with a white-hot grip on your arm they’ll say, “Walk away now! Don’t get her started.” But you’ll listen to me, won’t you? Yes? Excellent. Now,…
2012! While the others were swimming yesterday I went to lie down outside under the trees at the pool and began typing away on the new iPad. The plan is to sync up files to Dropbox and see if that will be a viable way to write. The day before, I walked to the library…
This weekend is the launch of issue eight called Gambit of the journal dotdotdash. I’m pleased to say that I have a short story included called ‘An Existence in Heat’. I don’t go a lot into the processes involved when it comes to the way I write my offline creative work here on the blog. This…
YouTube has introduced some new tricks to its editing area – or so I suppose, unless they’ve been there a while and I’ve just not explored the features properly. Anyway! Effects! I put an ‘Old-Fashioned’ filter/wash on this vlog to see how it looks, but I don’t think it’s showing up (or it wasn’t at…
