Don’t you deserve at least one day to write? Write 4 a Day is a series of monthly one-day writing retreats in upstate New York. There is: no workshop no agenda no required activities no assignments no schedule no WiFi(!) Write. Don’t write. Think. Daydream. Doodle. Outline. Come for the whole day or just for…
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Write 4 a Day: May 22
Don’t you deserve at least one day to write? Write 4 a Day is a new series of monthly one-day writing retreats in upstate New York. There is: no workshop no agenda no required activities no assignments no schedule no WiFi(!) Write. Don’t write. Think. Daydream. Doodle. Outline. Come for the whole day or just…
Short Humour
I am generally in need of it; perhaps you are too. After two and a half hours in the dentist chair yesterday, I definitely needed something. So here’s a new bit for that thing with feathers: Hope And here are some of the others you may have missed. Thanks always to Swan Morrison and the…
Write 4 a Day: 20 Feb
Don’t you deserve at least one day to write? Write 4 a Day is a new series of monthly one-day writing retreats in upstate New York. While I shall be hosting the events, let me be clear that there is no workshop no agenda no required activities no assignments no schedule no WiFi Write. Don’t…
Radio Radio
Listen to me have a natter with Hannah Kate on Hannah’s Bookshelf. It’s a free ranging discussion that takes in my many writing hats from academic to crime and historicals as well as the weird fiction that comes out under my own name. At the end I choose the three books I’d like to have…
Write 4 a Day
Don’t you deserve a whole day to pursue your writing? (or reading or drawing or –) The next Write 4 a Day writing retreat is scheduled for this Sunday, January 24, 10-5 at Universal Pathways in Berne, NY. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to ‘get away from it all’ just a few miles from…
Write 4 a Day: Sunday Nov 22
Write 4 a Day: Don’t you deserve at least one day to write? #NaNoWriMo
What Then Is To Be Done?
Yes, echoing Tolstoy’s 1886 essay here because as editor Aylmer Maude writes in 1935: During the half-century that has passed since the book was written many political questions that then seemed highly important have passed into the dull recesses of history; but Tolstoy’s impressive warning that the pursuit and worship of money does not bring…
Noir Con 2014 – Part 3
The longest day of the con kicked off early with a talk from Eric Miles Williamson about his unconventional path to writing and academia. From a tough Oakland childhood to the ivory tower or at least the Texas equivalent, along the way he’s been a jazz musician as well as a novelist, and now sits…
Writer Wednesday: Bear-Baiting
We live in interesting times. By which I mean we live as ever in difficult times; given the state of the planet we can be forgiven for a penchant for weaving apocalyptic narratives. It can be comforting to think that it’s only because we know so much more about what’s going on thanks to the…