This writing business will be the death of us. Even out of season, Hay-on-Wye is the Shangri-La of book lovers and writers. Here, it is unusual to see someone who isn’t reading, or carrying books around (possibly for effect – Jack Kerouac man, you know who you are). There are also numerous others, scribbling feverishly …
Month: March 2014
The Art of the Matter
Arizona by Seshu Kiran GS, used with permission of the artist. What is creativity? Is it taking an abstract idea and crystallising it into something tangible? And should the process of creativity also have an impact on the practitioner as well as the reader / viewer / listener / purchaser? On the face of it, …
A critical mass
The purps of being a wallflower. In the last seven days I’ve had three really useful pieces of feedback. Okay, you could call them criticisms – as if that were necessarily a bad thing – but that wouldn’t do them justice or reveal their true value.Allow me to elaborate…I talked before about how writers largely exist …
Story time
An early form of tablet, which wasn’t very portable. As the old joke* goes, “What’s the difference between a short story and a novel?” Answer: The word count. Ask any creator of short fiction and they will tell you how much focus and effort and, well, creativity it takes to produce a work of short …