Strategies for Survival: 2 WRITE A MEGASAGA! COMPETITION What is a MEGASAGA? A MEGASAGA is a story in 100 words. EXACTLY 100 words, including the title. This is the third Megasaga Competition I’ve run, and for people (like me) stuck…
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…
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…”…
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,…
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…
There can be no denying it. I’m gutted Troy lost. The Achaeans, tiptoeing out of their wooden horse in the drunken hours of the city’s post-party night, opened the gates to their army. The warriors poured in, killing the men,…
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…
Finally I read Voltaire’s Candide! What a splendid farrago of nonsense woven apparently drunkenly or high on something more exotic, around a profound philosophical debate between optimism and pessimism. The characters of Pangloss the eternal optimist “everything is for the…
How Jeremy Clarkson makes a fool of himself and his readers! It’s not just about Greta. Look, we have all been highly impressed by the fact that a sixteen-year old Swedish girl felt so strongly about the Climate Crisis that…
