Why Journalism
I’m moving along to do some non-fiction again because it opened up so many character sketches and short story lines as well as being enjoyable and getting me involved with other people. Let me do […]
I’m moving along to do some non-fiction again because it opened up so many character sketches and short story lines as well as being enjoyable and getting me involved with other people. Let me do […]
There was and interesting article by Piers Blofeld in the Writing Magazine about writing degrees. I for one, haveing studied Mining Engineering at university would only study ‘writing’ at university if I wanted to compare […]
Dead or dying I’d have described my muse over the last year or so but my Writing Group triggered a remarkable recovery with a challenge to write a short story on the subject of photography. […]
Like many others, my writing muse went to sleep during the long isolation of covid and I was even considering giving up on writing and sketching when, in frustration I turned to an old Bernard […]
So football (soccer) is with us this week-end and we can welcome the commentators back to our screens, a joy, if like me, you’d have gone to a match with friends who share the enjoyment […]
This comes from a Telegraph feature about the idea of people spending less time on pension, which I enjoyed. The feature explored the alternative to the proposal for raising the retirement age with the idea […]
I watched a programme about the mental benefits of gardens and the countryside and felt I should share a note from Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher and stick a country story about a poacher, Fishing for […]
Reading old books often provides not only information about the era, but characters for a story and Richard Jefferies’, The Amateur Poacher, was no exception. There are no poachers anymore, they were only a few […]
IN Hugh Thomson’s The Green Road into the Trees, I came across a mention of Richard Jefferies and dug up a book of his, The Gamekeeper at Home, from the library. The book was first […]
I watched some children playing in a made up kind of small park, where they could go on bicycles and scooters the other day and was glad someone had given them the opportunity to just […]