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Writing Prompts: Going Further with Landscape & Location…
New writing exercises available here - exploring how we can connect more deeply with the locations and landscapes we use in our writing... These monthly writing prompts are drawn from a website about the novella-in-flash, but you can channel these prompts towards all...
Writing Prompts: Landscape & Location as a Dynamic Story-Engine
New writing prompts here - about using locations and settings as a dynamic engine for narrative... Although these monthly writing prompts are drawn from a website devoted to the novella-in-flash, I invite readers here to harness these prompts flexibly for all kinds of...
Story Writing Prompt: Getting Your Characters Out of Their Comfort Zone
Following on from this weekend's World Cup football drama, which took everyone out of their comfort zones, I'm sharing some story writing prompts here from the novella-in-flash.com blog - different ways to get your story characters out of their comfort zones… without...
Forthcoming Workshop: ‘Managing the Inner Critic’
(online, via Zoom, Saturday 29th July, 15.00-17.30 UK time) A quick announcement that I'm offering a new workshop in a couple of weeks' time: it's aimed at writers, artists, musicians, freelancers, facilitators - and creative practitioners of all kinds: 'Managing the...
And… Two More Awards??
I guess this is the moment when I have to wheel out the creaky old joke about the buses arriving all at once? I rewrote my planned blogpost this week, because my craft guide Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash: from Blank Page to Finished Manuscript (2022), first on...
Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2023
I hadn't expected to have further news to share about my craft guide Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash: from Blank Page to Finished Manuscript (2022), so soon after my most recent blogpost. However, I'm thrilled to say that this book has now received recognition in a...
Reader Views Literary Awards 2023
I'm pleased to announce that my craft guide Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash: from Blank Page to Finished Manuscript, published in 2022 by Ad Hoc Fiction, has been announced as a Winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards 2023 - gaining the Silver Award for...
Review by John Brantingham
I don't think I've read many reviews like this one by John Brantingham before. I love how he blends memoir, nature writing, philosophy, literary criticism and art criticism seamlessly into a single piece of writing - and an exquisite one, at that. That blend seems...
Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood – out now!
My new short-short story collection, Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood, is now available to order from Bamboo Dart Press at this link. Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood is a 40-page collection of 18 short-short stories...