I've got the music in me: songs in my story
Oh, that age-old question: is your novel autobiographical? Frankly, my dears, yes and no. Yes: because I'll use any source material and...
None of us are free: flawed characters and character flaws
"A man doesn't become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall." - Aristotle King Arthur is flawed. His Knights of the Round...
Moving down the track
"Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track But you'll be hearing...
The write way: getting agile with it
So... back in the day (and that day seems ages ago) I worked on the first draft of my novel using a method of my own making: scrummy...
That thing with feathers
"We are not afraid of night, Nor days of gloom, Nor darkness– Being walkers with the sun and morning." From 'Walkers with the dawn' by...
32 flavors
we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time. From 'The Mower' by Philip Larkin These are the last...
In parts
"Do not believe that the aged believe. Any more than the young, the safe. I cannot foretell my conclusion. Just that increasingly, my...
Justification graveyard
"substituting one day for the next remaining attempt to emerge from the next gesture skip deity made entirely of language, to the next...
All the small things
" You wouldn’t know it could feel so redundant— the wolfish starlings plunder the grass and nothing burns. Big Sur. We came here to rest....
Trouble in mind
today, i am a black woman in a body of coal i am always burning and no one knows my name i am a nameless fury, i am a blues scratched...
