Okay, so it’s not the greatest wordplay title ever and ‘lex’ isn’t even a real word – even if lexis was Greek for ‘word’. Although it does give me the opportunity to reference the excellent Mslexia magazine. I watched Sex and the City 2 last night. I enjoyed the first film and the series had …
Month: April 2011
The sin of submission
No, I didn’t know peacocks could climb trees either. That’s the great thing about life, it continually throws us curve balls, surprises and surprise curve balls. I recently broke a cardinal rule of writing: thou shalt not revisit an agent who hast declined thy work. I started with a letter outlining our previous interactions and …
Here’s Looking At You
I trust I’m not alone in that when I check out the reader reviews on sites like Amazon, I always look at the lowest scores first. It’s not literary schadenfreude that drives me, it’s the same approach I take with my own work. Some would say that makes me a glass empty kinda guy. More …
A funny old day
It started with a dream about my brother. He was around 18 or 20 and there was a huge whiteboard covering one wall of the living room, in the old family house in London. I had some calculations or writing up there and he picked up a permanent marker and started writing. I became irate …