Maybe Snaresbrook? Of all of Rudyard Kipling’s six serving men (you don’t need a link – you can search for it on the web if you don’t already know them), I think the most powerful is what – especially when it’s followed by if. And yes, that is another Rudyard Kipling reference – well spotted. What if enables …
Month: May 2014
Schtick
My As Above So Below magazine co-creator, and former sketch writing partner, David French, came up with the following gag: Two heads are better than one, but it’s hard to find a hat that fits. He has a point. Even as a writer of fiction (itself one of my writing heads), I jump from genre to …
Change Please – Part 1
Magnolia needn’t be dull. No, not a promo for one of my excellent and delightfully affordable ebooks; instead, a pause for reflection. If writing teaches us anything, it’s that change is inevitable. The blank page, if worked upon, becomes a tentative piece of writing and then develops into something. (Even disillusionment is something!)The same is …
Newsclash
Often, in the frenetic pursuit of publication and plaudits, it’s easy to forget why we became writers in the first place. Back in the day, when I picked up a pen and scribbled notes down in my teens, I wasn’t thinking about seeing my name in lights. I was spending time alone, trying to make …