It has been said that all books are in some way autobiographical; the author can’t help but put something of themselves into what they are writing. There may be some truth in this but for me, writing has always been … Continue reading
In our last blog post we discussed using archives and museums to come to a more tangible understanding of your subject. With art in particular, it is popularly said that to capture the true essence of something you must draw … Continue reading
On one of the first warm days of the year we made the one and a half hour journey into London to visit the Victoria and Albert museum in the name of research. These days the word research mostly conjures … Continue reading
…..CONTINUED….. In the reek fatted air half an hour later the door opens and a voice swills the grease between their teeth and spits out sweetened breath. WOMAN’S VOICE I’m home Vasil-eesa and I’m very hungry. I hope you’ve cooked … Continue reading
I realised a while ago that over the year we have been doing this blog you have seen a lot of Merle’s artwork. I’ve always encouraged her to share her pictures and have experienced the same breathless elation at the … Continue reading
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Attempting to be creative in a day when we are pressurised to get onto the property ladder, take on a mortgage and struggle to pay back student debts along with the regular bills, is difficult and often demoralising. It’s easy … Continue reading
I got this fabulous book for Christmas: It’s called 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. When I went through and counted up all the ones I had read off that list it came to 43! So I think it’s … Continue reading
“The waves awoke her in the limpid hours and churned her butter thoughts to soft peaks.” Abra Hunt from The Waves, the Waves. For as long as Abra and I have had this project in mind I have had its … Continue reading
Over the last couple of months I have been existing in an hermetically sealed hive of creative frenzy; just unfortunately not one iota of all that finger scribbling genius has been directed at our novella. In fact the story has positively … Continue reading
With a full nine weeks between Abra’s last post and my sitting down to write the next I began, with a certain foreseeable logic, to think about inspiration, or rather, the lack of it in this case. Of course, … Continue reading
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