Pay attention @StephenFry Dr Who = Food for the Soul
(Spoiler alert – for the final episode, Series 5 Episode 13, Big Bang) I’m addicted to story and I’m not at all ashamed of it. Story is too often looked down, as being of minor interest in proper, grown up literary fiction. Graham Greene, for instance, used to try to divide his novels into what [...]
Plagiarism and finding ideas
There have been a couple of news stories about plagiarism recently – one involving J K Rowling and her Harry Potter series, the other involving a German teenager, Helene Hegemann, whose novel about sex and drugs and Berlin was discovered to contain chunks of text lifted from other writers’ work. Image via Wikipedia These cases [...]
Avoiding Bad Sex
Write what you know, is the rule. And as Margaret Atwood says, “It’s the blood in the cookie that makes the gingerbread person come alive.” In both of the novels I am writing, there are unavoidable sex scenes, places where a closed door or a line of asterisks simply won’t do the job. Reading the [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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