Is culture owned?
How does cultural appropriation affect what I write.
How does cultural appropriation affect what I write.
Droving and the truth about the clearances.
Our meeting was preordained.
Why this 1820 historical novel is difficult.
I was about to start on the horse flesh idea I listed for a Writing Magazine competition and thinking of where the story starts, which is not always at the beginning but where the dramatic […]
I’ve talked about the short story competitions in Writing Magazine several times but have yet to give it a try. The trouble is, I’ve other things to write up and there’s no point in submitting […]
The background to a new novel set in the 1820 uprising in Scotland
There are advantages in using a single point of view character in a novel.
Everything is a character in a book.
Just fix the worst of it