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 …
Tag: satire
Online magazines – reincarnation for paper copies
I write a couple of columns for a magazine and I was recently checking out my work on the net (what can I say, I’m a big fan of my own writing). And then, like an idea faery flicking my earlobe, it came to me.What if I took one of the much-loved but rarely seen …
How to make a magazine – Part 2
So there we were in our own little world, with two heads full of ideas and the freedom to express them in our own publication.David and I had already realised that there were more things in heaven and earth to make fun of, so a name change was in order. Coincidentally, we also discovered that …