So you want to be a writer? Picturing long, quiet days tapping away at a keyboard and sipping endless cups of tea? The odd walk in the park to clear ...
Photograph by Flickr user @woolamaloo_gazette
This week, as the weather started to actually reflect the season we are in, I found myself cycling to work to the wonderfully fun ...
For my dissertation at university, I did a comparative investigation of four of my favorite books of fiction and their big screen adaptations: Lolita, Revolutionary Road, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Raymond ...
Pushing myself to try new things is one of the most important exercises as a writer. For me it is like skateboarding, I spent ages learning how to ollie and ...
Photograph taken by Alex Thornber
This post has taken a little while to write because it has taken me a while to decide if I should write it ...
The last couple of weeks have all been about writing and publishing etc, but there is something that is so at the core of writing that I ...
Inevitably, every story acceptance is accompanied by multiple rejections; sometimes a story will be accepted first time, sometimes there will be a re-write request and sometimes the ...
Getting published
Towards the end of my time in Cambridge I got the email I’d been waiting and hoping for. The magazine I’d sent the moth story to ...
My time spent in Cambridge was a catalyst for more than just improving my writing, it was also an important time for my photography.
I have been taking ...
Photograph taken by Alex Thornber
I was asked to look after a friend’s house for a couple of months. He lived in Cambridge, a city I had never ...
The first stories I tried to write and the book that started it all: continuing the brief history that foretells the work I am currently writing.
One night I couldn’t sleep, ...
I’ve written a few blogs before in recent years on different topics and the thing I’ve always found difficult is starting it off. Do I do the whole, ‘Hello reader, ...
