Archive for the ‘Story’ Category
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Julia’s Dream – a lesson in clichés
17 May 2013Last week, I wrote about generous editors and clichéd plot lines. I mentioned a story that I’d written and then…
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Welcome!
26 Jan 2013If you’re here because you searched for me after reading In Woodsmore Village in Scotsman Magazine this weekend: thank you! Thank…
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Hansel and Gretel creative writing competition
09 Jan 2013Happy new year! Mine got off to a great start when Bryan Christie called me from the National Library of Scotland to…
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Merry Christmas!
24 Dec 2012I wrote a story for an end of the year flash competition but it was rejected very quickly. Instead of…
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The contributor’s copy of New Writing Scotland 30 arrived in the mail this morning
31 Jul 2012Look at this, isn’t it pretty? The table of content is rather attractive too. It’s got Lin Anderson, Alasdair Gray,…
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Finding the peace to focus: eliminating distractions
31 May 2012Making the most of the evening, getting stuff written between dinner and bedtime, means cutting out the faffing. You know,…
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The Wolf at the Door is on Flashes in the Dark from today
25 May 2012If you’ve come to this post from Flashes in the Dark, welcome! Thank you for visiting and I hope you…
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And so the plotting begins
02 May 2012To write a story, you need a plot. The longer the story, the more detail you need. This I have…
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There are plots that work…
28 Mar 2012…and presumably there are plots that don’t. This is the story I told in my 2010 NaNoWriMo project: A young…