This is the story of how I turned a flash fiction story written in an hour for a […]
Writing
I got to spend a week in Exeter this summer, as the International Writer-in-Residence at the Quay Words […]
FINCH is one of my favorite books. I can’t understand why it hasn’t been made into a series, […]
I was thumbing through my copy of Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy […]
These days I’m re-reading Raymond Chandler’s masterpiece, The Long Good-bye. I do this as I’m nearing the completion […]
Us writers can obsess endlessly over the optimal amount of daily writing time. Should it be measured in […]
Dan Simmons is a writer you might know, and he once said something about writing and reading that […]
Sometimes you come across passages that remind you again of what good writing is. I just started the […]
In my edition of The Hobbit, cheap mass-market paperback, there is an introduction by Peter S Beagle from […]
…to begin with, that is. And Pixar isn’t afraid to admit this. In the sublime business book Creativity […]