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Many aspiring writers are either not aware of the value of the online writing community when it comes to finding moral support and resources, or they don’t know how to go about building a network. Whilst it is not compulsory to have an online presence and it is, by no means, the most important partContinue reading “Advice – Twitter”

Like many people, I returned to my parents’ house for the duration of lockdown. Speaking from the UK (I know, we’re aware of how badly this is being done) we are now in week 9 of social distancing and some form of lockdown and I know I am pretty much over it. Also like manyContinue reading “Post-Lockdown Planning”

Unfortunately most of us are in lockdown right now. It’s a daunting situation for the whole world and my thoughts go out to everyone who is currently anxious about themselves or a loved one, and give thanks to essential workers. Fortunately, a lot of us are using this time to do things that we haveContinue reading “’10 types of books you will read during Lockdown’”

This is one of those books that lots of people have read but not many seem to have heard of – certainly far fewer than have read it, in my experience. That’s understandable – it’s definitely quiet in its quality, it doesn’t brag about being good. It is, however, very good and delightfully uplifting toContinue reading “Dear Mrs Bird”

Salut! J’apprends le Francais encore parce que beaucoup des pays requerent l’etudiants apprendre une langue. Mon ami francais parles trois langue, qu’il apprendait a l’ecole, et je suis triste que nous n’apprendons pas les langues comme ca en Angleterre. A l’universite, j’apprends le francais et l’allemande comme une activite paracscolaire – je ne suis pasContinue reading “Language Learning!”

On Tuesday, I was in a lecture in which we compared the features of popular and literary fiction. To be entirely fair to the speaker, they gave equal time to both and discussed both as having merits and drawbacks. However, underneath this, there was an underlying tone of ‘looking down’ on popular fiction. I knowContinue reading “Popular vs Literary Fiction”

‘Theatre can outdo cinema for horror’. This is the assertion of Ghost Stories creator Andy Nyman, following the huge critical success of his collaboration with Jeremy Dyson, both on the stage and, somewhat ironically, on the big screen. Sceptical, I dismissed this article when I first read it as a plain (and, in my opinion,Continue reading “Review – Ghost Stories”

I’ve been working on a short piece of fiction speculating how villainous lackeys might be feeling the day of the deciding battle – think the Malfoys or the orcs! ‘Three Things’ My father always told me, at the end of each day, to write down three things I had learned that day in the diaryContinue reading “Three Things”

Tattoos INT. TATTOO STUDIO – EARLY AFTERNOON, 2019 A tattoo needle is heard as the title card [‘TATTOOS’] appears. Fade in from black. A tacky, yellow vintage radio is playing tinny orchestral music: ‘Jerusalem’ by Charles Parry, on a cluttered old sideboard. LUCY (24) is sat having a tattoo on the inside of her leftContinue reading “My first attempt at a script”