I've been a tad slack on the Twitter front recently, but I like to keep a record of good writing links around. I still mine my old link round up articles when I need to remind myself about topics like structure, characterization, and editing. Which is about every week. Maybe one day I'll make a ... More >
This week my workshop piece received its treatment at the hands of tutor and my fellow students. The story survived the ordeal pretty well, considering the subject matter included a baked bin tin the size of a house, a sea of gravy, and a soldier in the First World War. Besides, no work emerges from ... More >
It says something for how busy I've been that I found this ten day old piece in my queue, unedited and unposted. And that I have no recollection of having written it. So I'm on the road yet again, and I have a workshop story due in Monday. It's going to be a hurried affair. If ... More >
My friend and fellow writer Tom described a meeting he attended yesterday for his day job. In fact, it was a call-in affair. While he was wandering a wind-swept university campus waiting to go into class he was also speaking to co-workers in London and Silicon Valley. The conversation made him glad of his new-found ... More >
Well it's taken me two years, but I've finally got round to moving Inflatable Ink from its temporary home on Blogger to its own Wordpress theme. I have nothing against Blogger but as a coder I like to be able to poke about under the hood. Also, after six months or so, Blogger took against ... More >
Last week I mined a book I hated for some positive lessons I might apply to my own writing. Incidentally, later the same week Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff undertook a similar exercise at the Book View Cafe Blog. A different book, but it clearly drove her nearly as crazy as the one I've been wading through. ... More >
Last week I took time out to compose some flash fiction, and pickings were light in any case, mainly because I'm still travelling. So here's a round up of some of the links I picked up and tweeted in the last two weeks or so.Scott Myers at GITS will be analysing a draft script of ... More >
A few weeks ago I read a book I didn't like. I didn't like it so much I threw it away. From a distance. Quite hard. The next day, I fished it out from its corner, and because I was due on the road, I bought Kindle and audio copies to complement my battered print ... More >
This is my entry for the Platform Campaign Flash Fiction challenge The prompt required that a door open at the start, and a door close at the end. The door sent me into Kafka's waiting room. Either that or the DMV. ... Full >
I got diverted this week by the.. twitteriness.. of Twitter. It is, after all a social network. So as well as posting writing links, I found myself engaging in a feud about cats and hats, and ultimately cats in hats. Along the way I came up with reasons why writing is like sex, and posted ... More >
