The above thread comes from my new social media home (Yes, I’ll update the links on the main page ASAP) on Bluesky (I decided to…
Author, screenwriter, general miscreant
Tag: writing
Last year, I taught a workshop for the lovely Erskine Writer’s Group, where I talked about “writing the crime novel”, which of course meant that…
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 —…
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…
