or looking after your mental health as a writer “The days of the depressed writer… killing himself after burning all his manuscripts and considering himself a failure, are over – or they should be.” The Covid Pandemic seemingly brought grief and joy in equal measure albeit often with some getting the joy and others, unfortunately,… Read More A Brief Guide to Writing: 6 – The Writer and The Black Dog of Doom
I started this piece quite some considerable time ago. At the time, my novel was in the early stages with the publishers. It has been published over a year now, which tells you something about how long it takes for me to get a job done sometimes! By sheer fate, and the irony of the… Read More A Brief Guide to Writing: 5 – Mistakes, editing and you
Having reviewed Armitage’s latest book a few months ago and not finding it quite as good as some of the selected poems I’ve read over the years, I decided to see if I could rekindle my love for this poet by reading his collection of – presumably – his best works. I wasn’t disappointed. I… Read More Paper Aeroplane by Simon Armitage
“So, disagree with my reviews, by all means. This is also useful for those that fall upon these pages.” Recently, I had a lovely little comment on this site from ‘Jimmy’ who clearly didn’t like my reviews very much. I didn’t publish the comment because it was the usual vacuous insulting type which always assumes… Read More What is the point of book reviews?
Write Out Loud 