If you can’t take the time and trouble to learn how to write a coherent sentence, then why on earth do you believe people should listen to what you have to say?
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Category Archives: writing
Publication
2009-05-07 – 22:35:40
Hi, I’m back. Have you missed me? I have some good news.
First Edition is a new magazine publishing new writing: fiction, poetry, and reviews. It’s just reached issue 4. That’s an important one to remember. Issue 4. That’s the one you should go and buy.
That’s the one that contains [...]
A poem
2009-01-30 – 00:03:06
So on my OU Creative Writing course, we’re currently on the poetry module. After reading the chapter on imagery last night, I formed following in my head while cycling to work this morning.
Crossing at Islington
We swarm
Fluourescent honeybees on wheels
Waiting
For electric flower’s red stamen
to turn green.
Some go too soon
Red flashes out its warning.
Angry metal birds [...]
Too long gone
2008-12-15 – 11:52:08
Man, it’s been a long time since I posted. I blame Twitter.
You could always follow me there, if you don’t already.
Also my OU course. Which, ironically or not, is on Creative Writing.
Incidentally, if brevity is the soul of wit, then Twitter ought to be hilarious.
Diplomacy 101, and Cash for Stories
2007-04-29 – 10:55:58
Sometimes I write these things and don’t post them immediately, and then they seem wildly out of date. But it’s still worth putting them out there. Blogging doesn’t have to be completely reactive. Sometimes it should take the longer-term, contemplative view. So I offer this.
It seems obvious to me that, if […]
A Deadline Crash, and a Reading
2007-02-03 – 03:40:58
Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to write a Doctor Who short story. It was for a competition that Big Finish, publisher of DW books and CDs, were running. Alas, the closing date was the 31st of January, which is now past, and I didn’t finish it (does that make it [...]
Copyright Matters – Pass It On
2006-10-18 – 00:36:46
So here I am, all ready to write about my day for the “”History Matters – Pass It On”:http://www.historymatters.org.uk/output/page1.asp” site’s “”One Day in History”:http://www.historymatters.org.uk/output/Page96.asp” project, which has been much hyped of late. But before I started writing I took a look at the terms and conditions, where I found this little thought:
You agree, by [...]
On Countries, Nationhood, and Being Invited to Write a Guest Spot
2006-08-04 – 13:59:49
Dave Hill is a novelist, Guardian writer and prolific blogger. He is running a series of guest pieces on his blog. They’re on the theme of “What I Like About England (or not, as the case may be).” He was inspired to do this mainly by all the flag-waving furore during [...]
Cafe culture
2006-04-04 – 20:10:33
Well, I feel like a proper 21st-century blogger at the moment: I’m sitting typing this in a cafe. Specifically, the Clissold House Cafe, in Clissold Park in Stoke Newington, North London. The kids are currently at a tennis ‘camp’ (two hours’ intensive training a day for four days this week). It being […]