Winners of Campaign for Real Fear
The winners for Christopher Fowler’s Campaign for Real Fear have been named and two of them are full timers on the MA Course! Mucho congrats to Jon and Christina!!! Continue reading Winners of Campaign for Real Fear
Category: Writing the Long Way Around
Don’t drink and blog
Just one more, she wheedled, I’ll be fine! I can handle it and anyway, I don’t have far to go. I have just finished an embarrassing hour searching high and low for the bit of paper that has the co-ordinates and password for a blogspot site I started a couple of weeks ago – after a few cooking sherries, to showcase some short and some really short stories. I can’t find it. Ah crap. Continue reading Don’t drink and blog
Room for one
I had the fullest use of the writer’s room at University today, being as I was the only one there. I did some work, had lunch, read for a bit and nearly fell asleep so comfy, cosy was I. This is where I spread out for a bit this afternoon. I find I work better when I have less distractions. At home I can be distracted by any number of things including West Wing box sets, laundry and refolding scarves. At University the chocolate machine is quite a hike – well a couple of minutes, so I tend not to … Continue reading Room for one
Edinburgh – 0.8 degrees of separation
It turns out a very good chum of mine who knows our reader in residence Stuart Kelly from school, also knows AI Joe as they share a friend and met at a party. She highly recommended The Testament of Gideon Mack by our writer in residence James Robertson and has this to say: “I liked the Gideon Mack book. There were some very interesting ideas in it. It was also slyly funny about a very particular brand of raspberry-mouthed nippiness found in the part of Scotland where the story is set”. I love raspberry-mouthed nippiness and sly humour is a … Continue reading Edinburgh – 0.8 degrees of separation
There’s been a mix up
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright”. – Sam Seaborn, Deputy Director of Communications, The West Wing “Very many artists use this technique… by organically including parts in my text, I am entering into a dialogue with the author”. – Helene Hegemann looking at the difference between plagiarism and intertextuality Continue reading There’s been a mix up
Writing the Long Way Around 