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WTF, Will! parts 21 – 23
I was approaching the halfway mark of my Shakespeare-a-thon, and methought it was time for some top scores. The Big H was coming up, so…
It’s only Rock ‘n’ Roll… Well Almost
Over the years, I slung my guitar in many bands, and although not exactly an international rock star, I have had the good fortune to…
WTF, Will! parts 19 – 20
Much Ado About Nothing left me in a good place, so the thought of another comedy coming up was quite welcome. But would it deliver…
Christina
At first encounter, she slapped my backside and declared, “I don’t recognise that bottom!” . Then she skipped away on one of her missions to…
Just Another Day
I don’t want to bring you down, but Christmas isn’t always fun for me. It’s a difficult time for a lot of people. The pressure…
A Lake and a Troika
It is 1975. I am a teenager, listening for the first time to a protest song by Greg Lake. The tune mesmerises me, the riff…
Christmas is Cancelled!
When I was eight years old, I auditioned for a part in my school’s Christmas play, Christmas is Cancelled! Despite being a shy child, I…
WTF, Will! parts 16 – 18
I was cracking on with my stupidly self-imposed lockdown challenge to read The Complete Works of Shakespeare. I’d met a few Henry’s now, and although…
Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we go…
Over the river and through the woods To Grandmother’s house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh Through the wide and…
WTF, Will! parts 14 – 15
I’d now hit the stage where I was half enjoying this challenge and half wishing I hadn’t told everyone I was gonna do it. There…
Midnight Rites
“The werewolf’s bride is late.” A fierce black horse spoke. It then tossed its cloud of inky mane and transformed into a giant bird with…
WTF, Will! parts 11 – 13
I’d now encountered a few stand-out plays, in my great Shakespeare-reading marathon, so I felt quite buoyed up at the prospect of what was approaching….
WTF, Will! parts 9 – 10
In my quest to read all of Shakespeare from start to finish, I finally made it to plays that I’d heard about and seen on…
11. How to Promote Your Book without Being a Bore
Don’t expect people who barely know you or don’t know you at all will promote your book. It’s not likely that people will go out…
Of Straw-Stacks and Sisters
Ten minutes before I left the house, my boss called. “The science class is cancelled today. Take Jisoo and Jennie instead. They need adjective practice.”…
WTF, Will! parts 5 – 8
Full of enthusiasm for my lockdown project of reading The Complete Works of Shakespeare, I wandered blindly on to play number 5. Some time later…
Love, Christmas
The Long and Short of It I enjoy writing short stories, which is a complete one-eighty compared to how I used to feel. I used…
Beware the Snake Oil Salesman
When I first started down this self-publishing journey, I heard quiet rumours of the dangers of scammers. I knew they were out there. I knew…
WTF, Will! parts 1 – 4
We all remember those drawn out days of the first Covid lockdown, right? I don’t know how you coped, but while other people were learning…
Grace Notes, Part 3
Thank you for bearing with me. As a reward, we’re leaving high school. We’ll only revisit it in my dreams from now on. I promise….
Grace Notes, Part 2
I am glad you’re still here. Come, sit down with me. We’re in my English class. Spring 1994 is the pre-Axe-Body Spray era, if you’re…
Grace Notes, Part 1
This is a story of grace, not of sadness. I’m saying that because it won’t feel like that. Not initially. I’m just going to take…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good There’s so much to love about writing – the excitement of that initial spark of an idea; the stimulation of the challenge to…
10. As Time Goes By
I’ve discovered a number of things to do with cloth serviettes which in today’s age we seldom use. Personally, I don’t use them anymore because…
Be True to Yourself
I recently participated in ALLi’s SelfPubCon, which focused on the business side of writing. There were sessions on using social media, monetising YouTube, website design,…
“Take What Resonates, Toss The Rest”
Giving Feedback The title of this post is a sentence that’s often used at the end of a fellow writer’s feedback in the Lab, and…
Hurricanity
I have to make a new word. This is not uncommon for me. Legiterally is now, officially, a thing. Coffeed is a passive verb that…
Creativity: A Risky Behaviour
There has long been an association between mental illness and creativity with seemingly endless examples of successful creatives affected by anxiety, depression, bipolar and other…
River Cruise down the Danube in Eastern Europe!
We are back from a river cruise down the Danube from Budapest to Bucharest. Well, what did we see? We were amazed at the people…
9. SEPTEMBER MUSINGS
When, after the August sun, the first rains fall there’s something nostalgically magical that lures you outside or look through a window in silence and be embedded…
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