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An Introduction
Hello and welcome to my new website. I live 400m from the best beach in the UK (empirically evidenced) and spend my...
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The Nature Effect
‘Perhaps nature really does affect you that way.’ A comment scrawled in red on my second-year English essay. I can’t remember what...
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Writing Rainbows
I have always loved rainbows. When I was a teenager I had a rainbow poster, and when I went to college I...
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A Month of Poetry
I haven’t done it every day, but aiming to write 30 poems in 30 days is an interesting challenge to try, and seeing other peoples’...
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Musings on a Writing Life
Ten years ago I wouldn’t have had the nerve to write about writing, despite being a life long writer. I don’t make...
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Every Writer Should be a Reader
It is possible to be a writer without ever having read a book, of course it is. Some people don’t have access to...
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We Are All Storytellers
I am privileged to know a lot of creative people: writers, artists, musicians and makers of all sorts. My belief is that we...
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Progress of a Novel
Words written so far this week: 500. Don’t laugh, or pity me for that matter. That’s fine. It’s something more than nothing...
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Writing is Easy
Writing is easy for me. It always has been. I was a pretty dysfunctional kid, with lots of hang ups and I...
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