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There was no one in the once-a-monastery-now-a-restaurant but us. A young couple came in with their baby, only to leave…
Words are a re-ordering of dream, an attempt to drag down the superconscious into the good old conscious, where theatres…
A comic squib about domestic angst, which began ‘There’s a nasty niff in the downstairs loo’, developed its own agenda……
I do believe that, alongside metaphors, allegories and similes, a writer’s life itself is but another literary device to be…
Of the origin stories I read the one I liked best was about Jimi Hendrix releasing a pair of parakeets…
I was asked to co-translate a doorstep on Joseph Beuys, then a monograph on choreographer Pina Bausch and her innovative…
The green room can be daunting when you’re starting on your literary career but I’ve usually found it a source…
People don’t realise how little money there is, is because — until they are published and they find out —…
Julia Cameron states that writer’s block needs to be radically reconfigured as a sign that the writer has too many…
A photograph is often very revealing. I’ve written an entire novel based on a photograph album owned by the adjutant…
Life is a constant rearrangement of priorities, and sometimes we need to remember that writing — though a compulsion we…
There’s something wonderful about writing when there’s snow. It deadens sound and blankets everything with clean lines. There’s something wonderful…
