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
...Enron is rich with metaphor, with highly crafted extended monologues, and flights of a creative imagination that portrays ‘tame’ company lawyers as puppets and aggressive commodity dealers as forms of...
The Verse Is Yet to Come
...I won first prize in a national poetry competition run by the now defunct website www.poetcasting.com. Since then I’ve self-published four volumes of work — yet I’m loathe to promote...
My Secret Life
...motley mixture of artists, writers, government, high-tech and blue-collar workers, a vibrant LGBT community, a large Hispanic population, and college students at the flagship University of Texas. I don’t drive...
From Ear to Gut
...is that Mr Doctorow isn’t saying, generally, ‘don’t despair, inspiration will come’; he’s saying ‘don’t despair, KATIE, inspiration will come’. Headphones make it personal. When the dreaded ‘Audible hopes you...
Lift, Squat And Press
...was gentleness — no word counts or specific goals or self-flagellation for missing a day. With it being out there on Instagram others joined in, myself included, and a community...
Miracle Of The Plague Year
...swiftly and so completely by another. On my last day at work, a line of a song popped into my head from Doctor Doolittle, a musical I had seen at...
The Path Not Taken
...stroke of twelve (the advantage of living above the shop), but I doubt it. Mum talked easily to anyone she met, from complete strangers, to, on occasion, the Archbishop of...
Varifocal
Though I am not much of a planner when it comes to writing fiction and tend to set out with little more than an inkling of what might transpire, I...
Business-style reports
...the problem. Let’s use the P&O cruise question as an example. To complete the objectives, you need to start by considering all the relevant factors: competition, markets, destinations, customer age-groups...