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You might know that I’ve been playing with short stories for a few years. Pieces like ‘Braindead’, ‘Send Us A Sample Of Your Writing’, ‘Dogfight!’, ‘California Dreamin’, ‘Confession’, and the award-winning and internationally-published ‘Horse Of A Different Colour’, were all … Continue reading →

A novel comes at 50,000 words or more. A novella is 20,000 – 50,000 words. A novelette is 7,500 – 20,000 words. A short-story is 1,000 – 7,500 words. And flash comes in at 1,000 words or fewer. As if … Continue reading →

Working on a piece of prose for a short story, a feature or just mapping roughing out an idea is relatively simple. Working on a script, even in the early stages, is far more complicated – and all because of … Continue reading →

I had a spell, some years ago, where I couldn’t translate any of my ideas on to paper. They were falling over themselves in my head, I just couldn’t get them out. I recently had an email exchange with someone … Continue reading →

I’ve finally got around to redesigning this section of the website. I know! Get me. Finger on the pulse! It’s taken five years, don’t go on about it. The new layout is fairly self-explanatory. There’s a bunch of pages up … Continue reading →