25th January 2021 If, two years ago, I had written the first draft I have recently completed there would be champagne opened to celebrate...

My First Draft On 31st December 2020, fifteen months after embarking on the DIY MA syllabus, I printed the 83,000 words of the first...

Notebooks, the soft kind you use with a pen. I wonder how many other writers have a beautifully tooled and embossed notebook, bigger than...

I am, sadly, not in the first flush of youth. The body begins to complain with aches and pains here and there if it’s not treated with...

Practice Makes Permanent Over the last year I’ve changed my approach to writing long form. The long held and much vaunted ‘get it down’...