Testosterone, cortisol and crossing your arms.
How important is body language? A lot more so than you might think. Ann Cuddy shares some body language insights - question - do I really want to raise my…
Am I ‘sad’?
I have the feeling that it may be a little 'sad' to find this article in the Guardian interesting - but it is about words - and in particular how…
Should this be a novel?
Fascinating glimpse of the journal of an anonymous sailor. 1) I want to go and see it. 2) There is surely novel material in here somewhere. 3) Lady Hester Stanhope…
Lovely interview I’d forgotten I’d done until it went live this week.
Thank you to LibraryofErana for inviting me to answer questions on their blog. Great questions and I hope that you'll find the answers interesting. 9i did re-reading it having forgotten…
Is there or isn’t there? A Guardian take on Literary Fiction.
One sentence in the opening of this article jumps out at me - 'Jane Austen...wrote fiction to entertain and to make money. And that is what we novelists have been…
‘Imaginative people have messy minds’
So says the Huffington Post. It also says that creative folk - daydream (a good excuse then) - are good observers - enjoy solitude - seek new experiences - are…
More inspiring medium?
When I'm struggling on my laptop and my characters have gone awol and the next part of the plot is eluding me would I be more inspired if I was…
One to think about
Thank you Elizabeth Spann Craig for this insight into her way of keeping writing on track. Some of it particularly pertinent for me today as yesterday I spent too much…
Hanging – an appropriate punishment here – I don’t think so.
This is an article that had particular interest to me for several reasons - it took place where I currently live, so that an immediate draw. Then the topic, especially…
3rd in Rubery International Short Story Competition
Delighted to be 3rd in Rubery Short Story Competition - pity about the commas! (Though I don't think I had too many - in fact re-reading the story between finding…