Head of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton.
When I'm not writing, I like to sit doing nothing.
Main thing at the moment is A Writer's Diary on Substack.
| Writer | A Writer's Diary |
| Activist | Writers Rebel |
| Academic | University of Southampton |
Something on Vulnerability.
In the context of -
"You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up."
(Anyone here see Springsteen last week?)
What's your absolute worse noise distraction? What stops you being able to concentrate?
How to write Free Indirect Discourse.
Via George Saunders.
With homework.
Part 1.
https://open.substack.com/pub/awritersdiary/p/on-free-indirect
As a distraction from bigger matters, I've been noticing the oddness of what's right in front of me.
The desktop world.
Should a writer aim to make a reader cry?
Isn't that an illegitimate aim?
I don't think so.
Do you really want 10,000 new novels by your favourite writer?
AI questions, discussed.
Contributions, welcomed.
On Exclamation Marks.
Are they 'the cockroaches of the punctuation world'?
Daley Thompson's life advice.
Also applicable to writing, art, and many other things.
Can you write a flashback within a flashback?
How?
Well, here's a go --
On the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing.
Take your pick.
