The Rabble Across The River
...the stories, history, characters and community of St Thomas’. The key word here, now over-familiar, is ‘community.’ Though there were earlier ventures into forms of community theatre, the Community Play...
Finding the Woman In ‘The Kiss’
...Gustav Klimt’s lifelong companion, business partner and friend. It was for the Klimt centenary and I had six weeks to write the play. It was a commission I really wanted....
The Bestseller Detector
...components result in horrendous complexity. The systems themselves might be simple – a pendulum with a hinge in the middle is chaotic – or complex, such as the weather. But...
Research and writing – which comes first?
...writing.” “Completing a thesis means writing a thesis; it does not mean completing the research. Delaying the writing by spending too much time as ‘a researcher’ leads to all sorts...
Being a writer
...compose’ and two of the meanings of ‘compose’ are ‘to construct’ and ‘to arrange in a specified manner’. So writing does not just mean putting words down on the page:...
Harnessing The Dream
...or describe the story out loud too quickly. First, time to dream is needed (walking, pondering, reading, staring out of the window…). Then comes the attempt to commit the confused...
Delight In The Dullest Of Places
...volumes. Ice skating comes to mind; if a figure skater makes a routine look difficult, they will not win the competition. The same has to be true for a successful...
A Forest Called Homeland
...that he is both hunter and hunted. ‘And because of that,’ Maria said, ‘the fire worshippers of each generation come to this spot to commune with fire and cleanse themselves....
The Story Of Ourselves
...company, he now cultivates x hectares of coffee, producing x number of coffee beans a year, from which x number of cups, including yours, are made. Now ask yourself: did...
Sentences
...a tangent. Sentences – common problems Here I work through some common problems with sentences and give you strategies for solving them. Length Most writing guides will tell you that...