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CONSOLATION
A young creative asks whether she dare disturb the universe
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Friendship Issue
ROUTINE
Putting it together and keeping it together
How Much Longer Will We Be On This Page?
There were words strewn like spilt cereal all over the kitchen floor that morning, piles of subjectivity to be pushed aside before breakfast.
Truth, Memory and Memoirs
Sam Dodson ponders why we are so stung when the truths revealed in a celebrity memoir turn out to be lies. Conversely, why do we willingly watch, read and engage ...
Who the f*** is Alice? Letting Teenagers Loose in a Digital World.
“One of my pupils had Alice horribly injured in a car accident and then caught up in a zombie outbreak. Another decided that she would become a gangster’s moll and ...
On a Tuesday, Not Writing.
It’s astonishing how much time you can sift away doing nothing. Just yesterday, from your place six thousand miles from home, you told two people on the phone that your ...
Too much of what you fancy…
These days there seems to be a literary prize for everything. Having an argument with another author? Start your own literary prize. Don’t like one prize’s shortlist? Start your own. ...
Pippa Gets Published
In the Chinese Lunar Calendar, 2011 has been the Year of the Rabbit, whilst the United Nations designated it the International Year of Forests and the International Year of Chemistry; ...
Tour de France
The Tour de France is the most sought after crown in the cycling world. This epic race covers 2200 miles, takes 22 days to complete, has men with shaved legs ...
NaNoWriMo: Here We Go Again…
If writing was a sport, with a poem being a sprint and a blog article the 400 metres, then doing NaNoWriMo would be the equivalent of running the marathon flat-out ...
Pushing Myself
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 ...
My Current Project
This post has taken a little while to write because it has taken me a while to decide if I should write it at all. I wanted to write about ...
Procrastination
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 ...
Rejection
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 ...
Tales of a Modern Writer – Part Five
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 ...
Apprenticeship: Part Two
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 ...
Apprenticeship: Part One
I was asked to look after a friend’s house for a couple of months. He lived in Cambridge, a city I had never been to, and he had a garden ...
What’s in a Pen Name?
In Act II, Scene II of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the young lovers call into question the importance of our given prenomens, with Juliet questioning “What’s in a name? That ...
Putting Pen to Paper
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, ...