The Scribbling Sea Serpent

So much emphasis is put on getting the opening right, but a good ending is also important. Of course the point at which a short story ends i...

Plotting is something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. It’s one of the hardest things to get right, and the hardest thing to get goo...

This sounds straightforward enough, but isn’t always the case. If fact, sometimes it can be quite hard to identify where exactly a story sho...

Last night’s prose café at the Octagon Theatre was a talk by local artist Kate Lynch. Her paintings form a unique record of the Willow and b...

Well not much longer by the looks of things – just had an e-mail from the editor and he’s hoping to start shipping the contributor copies in...

The first of May and the azalea my father grew from seed just before he died has burst into flower for the first time, as if to welcome Mayd...

As I’ve said in an earlier post, feedback from an Agent is a rare treasure, but that it exactly what I received today. She makes some useful...