Month: May 2013

Cheat?

Recently, over at Freya’s blog, she asked the question: is traditional publication a vanity project? Which led me, via an innovative mental process, to interpret the question as: is it, in fact, cheating? That’s given me good for thought. It seems to me that, in order to cheat, by definition there has to be a …

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Once upon a tome…

Hang out the flags, I’ve got an idea for a story. We tend to see events and perspectives from the beginning of things, without always appreciating the beginning (or the ending) before the beginning. Sometimes, it’s the ‘why’. Why was the ‘wicked fairy’ in Sleeping Beauty wicked? What drove Laurie Lee to start his journey …

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