Author, editor, drinker of tea
Saturday 27 June is National Flash Fiction Day, as any fule kno (and it was a struggle to get THAT past autocorrect). So this will be a very short blog post as I do not want to get in the way of all the lovely stories which will be flooding into your lives today via …
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The FlashDogs are back, and this time it's a double helping with not one but two new short story anthologies out today! All profits from the sale of the anthologies will go to The Book Bus charity, which helps children in developing countries to read and to be inspired by books. As the parent of two …
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Oh, you must know I Write Like. It's that website where you paste in a chunk of what you're writing and it tells you who you write like. I'm not sure when I first discovered it, but it's been around since 2010. According to my not-very-in-depth research (see below) it uses a naive Bayes classifier …
This post was scheduled to go out yesterday: I held it over due to the continuing election coverage. Today's a pretty big day. Yesterday was the UK general election, so by now we may know who's in charge of the country for the next 5 years (although I suspect we won't). [Edit: well, that shows …
I'm conscious that I haven't posted here for a little while. Not because I haven't been writing - I've written various flash stories, carried on editing the novel/hot potato (I'm nearly two-thirds through what I'd say was a fairly thorough edit, involving quite a bit of rewriting, she said defensively), and I've had two stories …
So here's how today is supposed to work. I've taken the boys to holiday club and I have a day off. Therefore I will be writing. Today is (of course) Flash! Friday, so I have ideas for a story pinging round my head. Friday is also Faber Academy's QuickFic day, so at 9.50 I'll be …
I've wanted to write this post for ages...but it's taken me a very long time to get to the point where I felt that I had anything to say! To explain: Winston Churchill was asked by his barber if he wanted his hair cut in a particular style. His response was: 'A man of my …
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