This year I graduated with an MA in Writing and Literature. Throughout, the emphasis in the writing components was upon 'literature'. We could only use aspects of genre or sneak them sideways into our short stories or essays. However, I'm over artificially constructed barriers. Surely there is nothing unliterary with the works of China Mieville or Ursula Le … Continue reading Genre-trification
Edgar Allan Poe
Lessons from ten-ish years of short story writing
I've been writing a while now and studied courses and read a few 'how to' books. They're all helpful in their way. My advice is take advice and don't take advice. Not everything I've been told works for me and I'm ok with that. So if some of this is too obvious you can ignore … Continue reading Lessons from ten-ish years of short story writing
Sad & Beautiful
Sad can equal Beautiful. I'm in a bit of a bleak patch. A bit blah. At first just because, and then because of a few events this week. But I take hope in the Rota Fortunae of Boethius (and Tony Wilson). I know it can't be all rolling in kittens and daisies sunshine when you … Continue reading Sad & Beautiful
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