Writers: Six Reasons to Embrace Voice Recognition Technology
It’s fast. The other day I tried dictating a passage in my WIP into my MacBook. I completed a thousand words in much less time than I would…
A running buffet of the thoughts and ideas that crowd into a writer’s life.
It’s fast. The other day I tried dictating a passage in my WIP into my MacBook. I completed a thousand words in much less time than I would…
I intend these Work In Progress blogs to be rather more than just ruminations about what I happen to be writing at a given time. They will constitute…
Do you Kindle? I do. There are several reasons why a Kindle, or some other eReader, is indispensable and the first of these is travel. Books significantly add…
Modern readers tend to be very cagey about what they perceive to be too many coincidences in a work of fiction and yet life is full of flukes…
The all-out winner is Lincoln Cupples. His was the only 100% correct entry so there is no runner-up this time. Copies of The Swan Diptych, Come Away, O…
Very moving. The American critic for the NY Times who wrote that it is ‘the cinematic equivalent of a visit from a cherished but increasingly dithery maiden aunt’…
It occurred to me that there are a good many pubs, clubs and restaurants in my work so I thought I would list them. But which are fictitious…
One of the most exciting things about writing fiction is the power to create worlds. At the moment Humphrey is visiting Jack in Durham, where Jack is an…
To Burton Hathow School this morning to talk to children from Years 4 to Year 6 about the craft of writing and to read something from my work.…
They say that a book stands or falls on its opening. Here are the first lines of my output so far: The Mouse Triptych (2013, 2nd. ed. 2015)…