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Breaking into Commercial Fiction
I've just got back from Loughborough Uni where I was attending the Writing Industries Conference. It was a great day.
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Don Quixote
It would be difficult to write an amusing blog about mass suicide so I won’t even try.
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Me and Mickie James Cover
This week I received the cover for ‘Me and Mickie James’. I was surprised. I was expecting a picture. Instead it is covered in writing, front and back. Also it’s black.
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National Year of Reading 2008
This year is the National Year of Reading . (That’s reading as in reading books, not Reading as in the town outside London.
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As If!
There was a quote at the end of the Start the Week podcast. Q. “Why are you not unhappy?" A.
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The poem is sentimental in
Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020
The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...
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Another really brilliant
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Another really brilliant first line - so unusual an image. And your poem fits perfectly with the picture.
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Agree with the above and I
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Agree with the above and I mentioned before that we live in strange times when what would have been fiction is now our reality. The clip I love too... the words all the more poignant than ever. Someone at work said to me yesterday that when all...
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I liked this - quickly sets
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
I liked this - quickly sets the scene, and I like the way it pans out with the phone call. Couple of tiny things. 'fuck you quickly' needs some punctuation. Because I just read it as 'fuck you quickly'. An exclamation mark after 'fuck'? ...
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It's a great first line.
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
It's a great first line. Because everything builds and develops from there.
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Completely brilliant. A
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2020
Completely brilliant. A procession of unusual, startling images that have absolute clarity in their absurdity. And I've seen the wolves, they're at the end of the pier, dancing a slow waltz while sucking on popsicles.
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Agree with all of the above.
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2020
Agree with all of the above. Inspired concise storytelling. Fabulous. And it would make a great little film in itself.
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Enjoyed this.
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2020
Enjoyed this.
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I would love someone to
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2020
I would love someone to 'weave sunbeams' and 'streak radioactive across purpled midnights'. What lovely words.
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Beautiful and sad. Drew.
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
Beautiful and sad. Drew.
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