I was asked what influenced me as writer recently. At first I thought it was an easy thing to answer. I’ve said before that Arthur C Clarke’s Childhood’s End is what got me hooked on […]
Category: Writing
The art of writing
What’s wrong with a nice story?
The prompt for this post was a film I watched recently, Salmon fishing is the Yemen. I knew it had good crits and it’d been on my “to see” list for a long time. From […]
A writer’s resolutions for 2018
In my previous blog I reflected on what I’d learnt in 2017. So now It’s time to look forward to a new year and make my writer’s plans for 2018, a.k.a. resolutions. I do this […]
Another year as a writer – time to reflect
Well, that’s almost it for 2017. I don’t know whether it’s because I’m a writer and there never seems to be enough time, or it’s just that I’m getting older (as everyone does of course). […]
Writers beware – sod’s law exists
Part of my first job on leaving Uni was in the quality assurance section of a scientific organisation. Believe it or not, before the late 1970s little of it existed. After all everyone was doing […]