Part of maturing as a writer is learning to wait. You learn to recognise the varieties of dread: to distinguish genuine judgement about the quality of a story from plain old back-to-work nerves. I am currently Waiting for Edits, which is usually a very anxious time, but I feel quite happy about the work ahead [...]
Category Archives: writing
Scaffolds
Friday, December 9, 2011
Things are winding down for the year, and it appears my brain has decided to knock off early, but before it does I have managed to come to the end of a first-ish draft of the new book. Granted, it is mostly scaffolding, but now at least I feel capable of building something. I was [...]
how not to write
Thursday, December 1, 2011
how not to write first, go to your room you must have a particular room for this, but the arrangement doesn’t have to be monogamous. look out the window at the bird eating your plums. see how the bird is not a poem, but a bird picking at fruit and shitting where it sings and [...]
octovember short story podcast: the taxi driver
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
With apologies for the pause between broadcasts, here’s a new fiction podcast for you. This story began on pure observation, sitting in a gay bar in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, back in 2008. It’s going to be in a collection of my stories which I am happy to announce will be published by [...]
