

Unfurling the leaves of Stephen King's unfinished novel, The Plant
I recently reread The Plant by Stephen King. It’s one of his lesser-known works. He published sections of it privately as a kind of...


The return of Spring-Heeled Jack: The Terror of London
Over the past several years, I have been collating and transcribing stories that I’ve started to publish as The Spring-Heeled Jack...


Writing the World Beyond Lockdown
Writing a novel in the Covid-19 Lockdown Like everyone else, Coronavirus is on my mind and how it will affect us in the near (and far)...


NaNoWriMo 2018 A Survival Guide
NaNoWriMo is on us again. Some people are approaching it with excitement, others with trepidation. But all with the intention of creating...


Countdown to NaNoWriMo - structuring your novel
NaNoWriMo September is drawing near. That means it’s only two months away from beginning the latest challenge for National Novel Writing...


Dealing with Depression: The Impostor Phenomenon
Some years ago, I undertook some training to supervise PhDs, and this was the first opportunity that I felt able to talk about the...


























