For last Tuesday’s Café Stories I put together a lesson that combined memoir writing and plot types. There are umpteen theories on the range of narrative structures, but to keep it simple I stuck to the one that holds there … Continue reading Story-a-Week #9: Memoir and Monsters
Another hard won story which started in the Café Stories workshop on Tuesday. We did the art of writing about place. The setting for a story is more than merely a backdrop for the action, when done right it can … Continue reading Story-a-Week #8: The Art of Losing
I’m a day late with this post for a stew of reasons, the culmination of which being I couldn’t get any purchase on this week’s story until I woke on Monday morning and realised what it was about. Then had … Continue reading Story-A-Week #7: On a Dig
In last Tuesday’s Café Stories workshop instead of starting with character I got participants to start with an object. I asked them to choose an object in the cafe and describe it. But first, I told them, or reminded them … Continue reading Story-A-Week #6: Twenty-Eight Years Gone
Once you’ve won NaNoWriMo what do you do next? Continue reading Resolve
From my inbox: While the team at Wigtown Festival Company are busy working away on this year’s Book Festival, here are some other events happening in and around Wigtown in the coming weeks. Four Ball Golf at Turnberry We are … Continue reading Literature Ambassador: Wigtown Happenings
Crime writing seems to be big business these days, not just when it comes to selling books, but when it comes to writing them too. There are conventions, events, and crime writing workshops popping up all over, and two out … Continue reading Literature Ambassador: Mysteriously Yours
