#FlashPIC 54 Will It Hurt #writingprompt #amwriting
You are high in the air, looking down. It is a long way to the ground. Why are you there, what are you doing? Write a foot chase sequence for a book or film in which your character has no choice but to...
View Article#FlashPIC 55 Wild Rose #writingprompt #amwriting
Consider the symbolism of a wild rose, growing unchecked in the hedgerow. Red roses traditionally mean passion, true love and romance, but what about other colours? And how is a wild rose different?...
View Article#BookReview ‘How Novels Work’ by John Mullan #amwriting #writetip
The advice often given to inexperienced writers is to read, read, read. But alongside this reading must go the ability to analyse the novelist’s technique, learn, and apply that to your own writing....
View Article#BookReview ‘Time to be in Earnest’ by PD James #writerslife #diary
Time to be in Earnest by PD James is not a conventional writer’s autobiography. Instead it is the year in her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays during which A Certain Justice, the tenth Adam...
View Article#BookReview ‘Jane Austen A Life’ by Claire Tomalin #books #writerslife
As a lifelong Jane Austen fan, how I wish I had read this biography years ago. So many details from Jane’s life, her observations in letters to sister Cassandra and comments about Jane by her own...
View Article#BookReview ‘Ammonites & Leaping Fish’ by Penelope Lively #writerslife
Penelope Lively is one of my favourite authors and so it was with anticipation that I picked up her memoir, Ammonites & Leaping Fish. And I was not disappointed. From page one I was captivated by...
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