Thursdays are archive day on Gamboling at the moment. I have tried to come up with a solution that can highlight some of the short stories from the archives. For that I am going to be recording an audio version of a story featured in The Book With The Missing First Page (still available from [...]
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A game of cat and mouse
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The five whys of why you like the internet?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the continuing series of questions for you in the comments, here’s how it works. I’ll ask you a question, and you either answer in the comments or on your own blog and drop a link to the post. Question: The five whys of why you like the internet. Now this might need some [...]
Presents of mind
Posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Buying a present for somebody is trouble. Of course we all know this, but we don’t admit it. It’s better to give than to receive, they say. But at Christmas you are doing both and that’s got to be a recipe for disaster. So where does this all come from? It would seem to be [...]
Creative endeavours
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
You may well have been wondering what I have been getting up to of late. The novel is progressing well. I have started getting feedback on my second draft – I have two and a half responses so far and it has been a fascinating process. In the meantime, it is stunting my writing ability. [...]
The Writer’s Prerogative
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 | 16 Comments »
I was talking with a friend the other day, and he admitted that since our last conversation I had blown his mind. What, I wondered, was this amazing thing that I had done? Earlier in the year he had read my first book: The book with the missing first page. That hadn’t blown his mind, [...]
What are you spending your social capital on?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In a recent podcast, Joel Spolsky made a very valid economic point about new media (you can listen to it here). He was talking about the decline of print journalism which you may or may not see as a bad thing. He suggested that the new media will find it much harder to support in-depth [...]
Creativity isn’t all big shirts and flouncing around Italy
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Katherine has been being creative over on her blog. Please check out these two posts before you continue reading all of this: http://kathall.co.uk/blog/2009/10/are-monsters-creative/ and http://kathall.co.uk/blog/2009/10/the-wonders-of-pritt-stick/. I wrote a comment on her site that got a bit out of hand. So here it is – it’s the creative process, writ large. I am not sure I [...]
Who edits the editors?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christine asked two important questions in the comments on the Draft Dodgers post: I’m curious who you select to read your work along with you – friends, family, perfect strangers? Is it hard for them to be brutally honest? I know how I chose the set of people I am using but I’m not sure [...]
Draft dodging
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My muse is like Sharon Stone
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I totally subscribe to the Elizabeth Gilbert theory that it is much healthier to act as the Roman and Greeks did and imagine that genius and inspiration are seperate to yourself. Obviously we know that this isn’t true in reality. We know that when we sit down to a piece of work we sit down [...]
