Today’s challenge comes from my wife, Chrissie, and it’s a bit different to the other prompts I’ve had…She’s asked me to write her an apology (for drunkenly keeping her awake… Read More »Day 9 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
Three thirty, on the dot. He sits. No paper. No dog. No pipe. He just sits.
I have a cloudy memory but I’ve always been drowning in cotton candy words. I tried to put my finger on what I needed to say, only to end up adrift, or worse; shooting the messenger. Nothing was ever shipshape and Bristol fashion, and so often I would beat a dead horse.
This is an excerpt from a theatre piece that I wrote a few years ago. I am hoping to get this into production with a new theatre company later in the year. You can read more from the same piece here. ACT 1 The stage is dark. A casket or box towards the rear of… Read More »Pied
‘Fifty percent of all books have more words than Brave New World and fifty percent have less. It is a very good book’
So I guess I’m on a precipice. I like that. A big goddamn word. Like plateau. How do you like that fanciness?
Today’s challenge comes from Chris Hewitt who challenged me to write about what my dog Pablo was thinking. My wife and I got Pablo about eight weeks ago. He came… Read More »DAY 2 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
Each wave crashed a beat matching the throbbing pulse that he would seek to cease. Each ebb taking away nothing, and leaving him with burden.
The world record for most words read per minute was set by Stephen Berg and stands at twenty-five thousand words per minute.
Write fast. Make mistakes. Spell your words however they come out
There have been over one hundred and thirty million books published in modern history. Every year that number grows by an average of two and a half million.
‘The shortest story is six words. Largely attributed to Ernest Hemingway. The longest is Artemene by Georges De Scudery. It’s One million nine hundred and fifty four thousand three hundred words’
There is no Dewy Decimal system here. These books are not sorted by genre or author. They are not arranged by colour or size. I would never sort anything by date of publication, or date of anything else for that matter.
Finally, after a very stressful year where life got complicated, Sky Edge is now complete. A deadline helped drastically with letting go of the script, as, if left to my own… Read More »Sky Edge
On Saturday, I was fortunate to have the opening on the first draft of my current project read by a great bunch of actors. It was great to hear the… Read More »Sky Edge- Progress
