Recently discovered Joshua Ferris and here is a short story he wrote for the New Yorker. I haven’t read it yet but plan to this evening. Also recommended to me, Sophie Hannah and Roberto Bolano I also keep tripping over delirious people still ecstatic from reading Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Continue reading Reading Radar
…Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Behindlings by Nicola Barker (still haven’t got very far with this). Have a week to read Paul O’Grady’s memoir ‘At My Mother’s Knee and Other Low Joints. IdonwannaIdonwanna! Continue reading Currently Reading…
David Bishop set us an exercise this week that is apparently completed by all BBC script editors…the Hoover Dam Exercise We spent around 50 minutes watching a documentary about the Hoover Dam with actors in all the main roles. David asked us to take notes and look for stories. He then split us into groups of three and our task was to choose one of the stories and map out a structure in five acts. If you are writing novels, you mainly work alone. But if your interest lies in writing for TV, film or radio then the chances are that you have to work … Continue reading Life Writing Class Exercise: Week Eight
I have just emailed to register my attendance for ESRC Genomics Network Social Session 02! Continue reading Deviant Criminal?
I popped into my nearest Waterstone’s yesterday and could not get in because of a throng of people waiting to see Jordan/Katie Price who was there to sign copies of her new book. I do not know what the world is coming to, but I am heading in the opposite direction right now! Continue reading Waterstone’s: access denied!
Writing the Long Way Around 