Although I’ve primarily written novels and short stories, I always wanted to write for the screen. My earliest efforts at writing were (bad) screenplays —…
Author, screenwriter, general miscreant
Tag: writing
When I spent a few years reading slush pile manuscripts for a small publisher, I started to realise that the manuscripts which failed to engage…
Writing — writing fiction especially — is a strange business. We are, in essence, magicians, convincing people that something that is patently unreal is actually…
There’s a quote I saw recently, attributed to the movie critic, Roger Ebert, that goes, “for me, the movies are like a machine that generates…
At the old site (which was a mess — I really hope this new one is much easier to navigate!) I used to host a…
My personal writing hero– or at least the person mostly responsible for my writing– is my dad. When I realised he had written a few…
