Writing

It has been a while since I have posted. That’s because I’m working on a new story. A story that has me really excited. It’s going be to be based on emails or written entirely through the lens of emails. I’ve done a lot of work so far but even I am getting confused and…

I have had another story accepted for publication and I’m delighted. I put a lot of effort into it and it has paid off. It’s my second story that has been published. At one stage I was thinking that perhaps ‘Some Girls’ might be the only story that would be published. I’m glad to have…

It’s autumn, my favourite season, but it feels like summer. The sun is shining and the skies are blue. It makes me want to go out and enjoy the sunshine. Which I might do but I would much prefer to write something. Perhaps a new short story even though I already have a story in…

I haven’t written anything in the last two weeks. Not because I have run out of ideas, on the contrary, I have a lot of ideas but haven’t seen any kind of rush to write them down. Though this is not necessarily the best policy. That I know because some of the ideas have left…

I appear to have a clear run at the moment. Helped I feel by writing. Long may it last though it probably won’t but at least I got most of a story complete in the last week. I didn’t intend to do any writing, my mood being so low for so long, however with a…

When I write the only sound I like to hear is the sound of my fingers tapping away on the keyboard. I might have the TV on but it will be muted and occasionally I might look at it for a minute or two if anything interesting is happening.  In reality I cannot write when…

When I write a short story I like to have as few characters as possible. If they play no part in the plot, they’re not in the story. I also like to add a foil character if I can. Pitting them against the protagonist. Sometimes it works well, other times I have to do rewrites…

I may have been writing (on and off) for a long time but I only made my first submission in February and to my astonishment Leon Literary Review accepted my story Some Girls for publication. It is an old story that I wrote about seven years ago but it was too long and chronologically it…

When it comes to my writing I like to write as simply as possible. There is nothing worse than having to look up a word in a dictionary (several times) when you are reading a story. I really don’t think a dictionary is the ideal companion to reading. I like readers to be able to…

When it comes to writing I have noticed, with the passing of time, the importance of words. How one word can guide a reader in a different direction, while another word will also take the reader to a different understanding of a story. I have learnt this lesson through experience and my obsession with language….

When I think about what inspires me to write the answers come quickly to me. The first reason I write is that I think it is a great means of escape. You can create worlds in your writing that you might not necessarily have ever lived. Or if you have lived the experience you can…

When it comes to writing I blow hot and cold. I go through periods when I am creative and manage to finish a story off in a week or two. Other times it is not as simple and two paragraphs into a story I end up deleting every word. It is as though I know…