How to be successful…enough
As I was cleaning my teeth this morning for some reason I remembered a boy called Andrew* at primary school who was always […]
Tag: writing
Where blogging fits into the writing week
How does your writing week look? Mine can typically include things like blog posts a client email newsletter a lot of emails (sent and […]
Notes from a workshop
Last week I was lacking inspiration, part due to work commitments and then a 3-day headache – ugh – so it was a […]
Poem-a-day, Days 3 – 4
Dear Reader For a minute I thought I was struggling already, but the Guardian came to the rescue, or rather whoever it was […]
Setting myself a new challenge
After a chat with a wonderful poet friend yesterday I had a bit of a lightbulb moment (albeit over a couple of […]
A feast of first lines
First lines. Ack! It’s worse than a job interview. You have 2 seconds to make an impression. Or something like that. Do you […]
Tips from Don Paterson
The Mimi Khalvati workshop notes I posted here recently went down well, so I thought I’d share with you some gems from Don […]
So this is what happens when I sit down to write
A free evening, and it’s a couple of hours until Downton Abbey (I’ll start watching it at 9, pause it at 9.01 so […]
Rejected but not cowed
Oh well … I kind of suspected that the stuff I sent to Poetry London wasn’t going to blow Colette Brice’s socks off. […]
Writing musings/ submissions etc
I’ve been grabbing the odd hour here and there to write while my other half watches the cricket highlights each day. I need […]