Rewriting my rules

On how I stopped writing for writing’s sake, and instead learnt to write better, by reading, listening and thinking. Hard stares and ginger beer all round.

Writer’s woe

I have decided, with a typically male lack of need for scientific, or indeed, observable, corroboration, that I have writer’s woe.

London Book Fair virgin #LBF10

In which I describe losing my London Book Fair virginity. Quick, embarrassing, and not eked out to make it value for money. No change there, then.

Muscle memory

Homicidal thoughts on the towpath, out for a run in the sun. Disturbed by Transition, by Iain Banks.

The fear #1

A fictionalised account of a powercut, and the thoughts that might, or might not, go through a neurotic writer’s head. He was probably reading Saramago’s ‘Blindness’ or some sociopathic rant on the future of publishing at the time or perhaps had simply spent too long on Facebook. You decide.