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Unusual Drama: Cardboard Clouds by Ben Niespodziany
I can safely say I've never read anything like this before. Featuring a cast of Death, A Business Man and a Magus (as well as Baby, God and Various Monsters), Cardboard Clouds by Ben Niespodziany is certainly unique. It's a novella written in one-act plays, something...
Artist’s Way Week 8: What Took Me So Long? Recovering Creativity
It happened again! Somehow I am writing this three months after finishing week 7. Despite all my best intentions, I completely fell off The Artist’s Way wagon. My creative recovery most definitely stalled. Interestingly enough, it turns out that the last time I...
Powerful Poetry – Bloom and Guts by Scott McKenzie
One of the benefits of having a little space to myself here on the Internet is that other writers reach out to me and share their work. Scott McKenzie got in touch with his fantastic collection Bloom and Guts, something I wouldn't have come across otherwise. It's a...
Gorgeous Waves of Poetry – Not Quite An Ocean by Elizabeth M Castillo
I had the extra treat of meeting Elizabeth in real life this year! She came to Geneva to run a workshop for the Geneva Writers' Group (in which I wrote actual poems) and we hung out and talked about all things writerly. So wonderful. This meant I was even more excited...
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This one's pretty special. Years ago I was at a Byte The Book event when I met Nadia Attia. We bonded over our shared...
The reading in the opening of this week felt incredibly relevant to me. As I turned each page I was thinking ‘yes....
At the start of March I set myself a seemingly simple goal: to make things. While a lot of my time gets poured into...
As the days and weeks pass, more and more I’m remembering why I haven’t managed to get to the end of the twelve-week...
The good news is I am still managing to get up in the morning. Even this week, while my partner is away, which means a...
I confess, while I was reading this book, it got stains on it. There's a splash of coffee near the beginning, while I...
This is the third time I’ve started working my way through The Artist’s Way. I can see from my notes that my last...
I like to be surprised. My assumption is that crime fiction is formulaic and a little bit cheesy. Clearly I had some...