THE SMALL THINGS

A writer I like very much, Matt Haig, recently made a list of thirty things he knows about writing for the Waterstone’s blog. When I saw tha...

Yesterday, I rashly asked the group if there was a subject they would particularly like me to cover. Bit of thinking. Small pause. ‘Well, y...

I spoke to my group today about the good critic and the bad critic. This idea is closely related to The Fear, of which I wrote yesterday. I...

I am running a small writing workshop this week. It is a keen pleasure, and it is amazingly hard work at the same time. I sit here now, in t...

This morning, I started writing a rather long, involved blog. I thought you might like a good, meaty Saturday read. But then I switched on T...

I learnt a big lesson this week. Life is always teaching me lessons, sometimes over and over again, because I am a bit of a goofball and I c...

A Dear Reader asked for the story of Stanley the Dog. There is no time to tell the full, antic tale. I will tell it one day. But for Stanley...

There are about seventeen things I would like to write about. There are matters to discuss, thorny existential questions to chew over with t...