Corona Chronicles Part 3: THE CRACK OF DOM

…what happened to Part 2? That was the WRITING A MEGASAGA competition! Where have you beeeeen??? We are nearly in phase 2 of the Pandemic. Phase 1, disease spreads, people die, people panic, governments thrash about in utter confusion. The…

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THE SHORTLIST

Who will win £100 in the MEGASAGA WRITING COMPETITION? BEFORE you check to see if YOUR story made the shortlist, please read this. Take a breath. Ok? Many’s the time I have waited intently for a shortlist, and felt that…

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UPDATE 3: NEWS AND BLUES

Hello from Leafy Lockdown London! With only 10 days to go before the MEGASAGA3 writing competition deadline, I’m gradually getting your knickers in a twist! Bad metaphor. I mean, confusion is setting in because when I receive a Megasaga3 entry,…

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Corona Chronicles Part 2: WIN £100 WRITING!

Strategies for Survival: 2 WRITE A MEGASAGA! This is the WRITING COMPETITION which can WIN YOU A POUND A WORD! ALERT! UPDATE 2, 24th APRIL! SEE BELOW ! What is a MEGASAGA? A MEGASAGA is a story in 100 words….

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Corona Chronicles Part 1:

Let’s Get Through This! Strategy 1: Reach out This blog is the first of a series which should give you strategies for getting through 12 weeks of isolation. These strategies are the result of brilliant insights gained at 3.52am every…

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Short Stories! Musings, madness, poetry….

from the author of whom Hilary Mantel wrote “…fairly waltzes the reader along…the mixture of the mundane and the fantastic is deceptively artless, the prose full of energy and humour, and beneath the playfulness there is an undertow of pain…”…

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Covid-19: Essential Notice for Readers

Well, I asked for it and I got it. Having posted a satirical flippant article on The Virus, I wanted to know if my readers regarded it as inappropriate in these early days of the global pandemic. The answer was,…

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Violence!

Two recent Facebook posts and a movie have punched me gently but firmly in the middle of my abdomen, where my conscience lives. Post one: a shocking picture of a young gay woman, face streaming with blood. She had been…

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Who Says I don’t get COMMENTS?

There are 91 at present awaiting approval. Wtf! How am I to know which are real and which are bogus nonsense from bots and other web-crawling pondlife? With Viagra or stadium lighting to sell or looking for an opening for…

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The Irishman – 10/10 or 0/10?

My screenwriting partner G is a fan of gangster movies. When he read “Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel….”a seraphic beam of fulfilment splashed itself over his handsome features, as if his…

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