The Ritual
Back in the summer of 2014 I went with Thing One, Thing Two and Mrs Preston on a camping holiday in France. We stayed in a large clearing in a forest, at a basic, but absolutely wonderful, [...]
READ ON!
Hosted by Festivaletteratura in the beautiful Italian city of Mantova, The Identikit of the Teenage Reader was a weekend of training for professionals and part of the READ ON project. READ ON, [...]
Lightbulb Moments
Lightbulb moments are cheap. Anyone can have an idea at anytime. It doesn’t take any special kind of skill or being a clever person to come up with ideas. And ideas can happen without forethought [...]
Hypnotically Suspenseful? I Don’t Think So
It used to be that whenever I started reading a book I always finished it. Well, that’s not counting the first couple of times I attempted to read The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I kept stumbling [...]
Is the Moon in the Correct Phase?
Sometimes it’s tempting to believe that no creative writing can be attempted until all optimum conditions for writing have been met. Peace and Quiet? Check. Mug of coffee? (In favourite mug of [...]