Into the dark woods
Still looking at the process of writing - exploring atmosphere, themes and feelings through poetry at the beginning of a novel. This...
Process: I often start a novel with a series of poems. No calculated reason, it just happens that wa
This is one of The Dipping Pool poems. The Yellow Storm* For two days there had been a strange calm. Trees, ragged and half-stripped,...
Don't Look Now: Publishing
In 1846, Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell paid for publication of a collection of their poetry. It sold a handful of copies. Your worth as a...
World Book Day: How to Write One!
Don't do it, people, unless: a/ Someone has ALREADY given you at least a five figure sum b/ It will genuinely help save the world or c/...
Prototype
Dear Friends, Voila! The first public outing for the synopsis of The Dipping Pool . Nervous... 'The Dipping Pool is both prequel and...
St David's Day, Prejudice and Pride
Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus i bawb! ( Sorry, Dafydd - I know these aren't Welsh Mountains...) I wish us all plenty of cawl, leeks, daffs. harp...
Rabies in Wales
So, this is how the research process goes: Look up the London Foundling Hospital; come across Hogarth being himself 'lampooned' for his...
Is February the new March?
The second used to be my least favourite month – the fun and family of Christmas long gone; the new possibilities con of January well...
Y Ladi Wen
Sometimes 'co-incidence' is just too strange and spooky! Elizabeth Powell, born Elizabeth Owen, the main protagonist in The Shadow of...
Blaidd, Blaiddast,Blaiddiaid
Been reading about wolves in Wales - a tantalising report of a wild wolf in Wales as late as 1785 though it's highly likely they were...
