Pack up my shadow Let me go Darkness becomes me. Fate slept, dreaming. The Castle Ruined, gapes open. I will leave myself behind me when I go. (Not just you) The interior I wear on the outside A jumper between…
in the Land of Ifonly…. News! Happy to report I have been appointed Co-Ordinator of the Hounslow Green Party. From now on every tweet, every Blog, every Facebook post, every Instagram moment is likely to be searched out by a…
A Lunatic’s View of the Remainder of the World Yesterday I met a raving lunatic named Jordan or some such. Well, it was my fault – I was out on the green, developing my brilliant new idea for making oldies…
How Even Virtue-Signalling Costs a Fortune How many of the emails in your inbox want your money? I don’t only mean the obvious direct sell ones. You know, like Charles Tyrwhitt, ‘shirtmakers of Jermyn Street’, though all of their shirts…
A Wet Week! Not outside. Outside was warm, some days hot, London sitting under sifting air redolent with fried viruses, some still kicking and looking for a home. A nice cosy home within which to breed. Idiots! If they get…
Apologies for the blog gap. Afloat still in the Pandemics, wind-buffeted, I thought I’d send you an update. Be nice! Email me an update about you. There’s more of you than there are of me. Hello dear friends. Hey guess…
HOW TO PLOT A SHORT STORY – the 3-Act formula that makes it 1, 2, 3! In this article I will cover mainly plot-driven narrative in plotting the Short Story. I will try to show you some ways of approaching…
To GL. 8’46”. We miss you terribly. It was a dark and stormy night…the cliché made a perfect fit as Mother, teeth gritted and eyes clamped to the streaming windscreen, guided the Renault down the sodden road alongside the Sewerage…
The MEGASAGA 3 writing competition has reached its conclusion, and the WINNER will be awarded £100 in shiny British Currency! Interestingly, there were many comments on the website supporting our decision. As I said, the decision was based not on…
