Writing In The Community
...as being rooted in the community. This new commission has encouraged me to think about my own responsibilities as a writer and to consider why community engagement is an often-ignored...
Three Hands Clapping
...people whose personal stories became source material to be explored through improvisation. Less high-profile companies, whose work was typically staged on the Edinburgh Fringe, have also favoured collaborative processes, deploying...
Inspiration By Invitation
...invited to contribute a poem celebrating another actual poem – poetry squared! – for an anthology on the bicentenary of Wordsworth’s sonnet ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802’. Sometimes...
Unseen But Not Unsung
...libretto Good Angel, Bad Angel, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story ‘Markheim’, had reached the fiddly back-and-forth-to-the-composer stage. Having worked with composer Lyell Cresswell on other operas since then,...
Bridge
...High School ‘My approach to writing has changed concerning the importance of ensuring every sentence works and when put together builds both a clear and accessible argument.’ Edinburgh Academy ‘I...
Typeface
...My computer needed updating. There were viruses, security issues, lost floppy disks, corrupted data and frazzled hard drives. And with all this, computers’ time-saving benefits and convenience became diluted as...
The Heroine’s Journey
...of conviction, I raked through ideas of great thinkers, leaders and activists tested to utmost endurance for their beliefs… Only to write a story inspired by Sara Payne, about a...
Should I always use a computer?
...first draft by hand and then typed it into the machine later. What I remember most was one student who never used a computer because it interfered with his thinking.”...
What Makes Superheroes So Special?
...of a strong narrative, combined with an emotional roller-coaster, interspersed with regular cliffhangers, and then they added super powers. For my teenage self, it was an irresistible combination. There was...
Losing The Freestyle Battle, Winning The Lyrical War
...Each battle would consist of two or three rounds and each round would have a different instrumental hip-hop beat to rap over. During each round each rapper would have an...