I love King’s book On Writing, and recommend that you read it. I wouldn’t say every writer has to write like him, his advice can be genre specific and even he says you need to work on your own style. But he does give some good advice for writers that Read more…
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that… …every good writer needs an amicable assistant. My name is Emma, I have proofreading experience with authors, students and businesses. So is it worth hiring a proofreader for your book? Hopefully I can give you some pointers below to help your decision-making process. Read more…
I just read Citadel by Kate Mosse, which uses a number of foreign words and phrases because the novel is based in France in the 1940s. As I know some French, it’s interesting how well the author weaves explainations into the text to make it easy for readers to understand Read more…
Working towards a world full of colourful socks I found these little stories in my creative writing archive this month, and thought I would share them with you. I was working at the Edinburgh College of Art at the time… Imagine you’re in Edinburgh around 2002, and you buy a Read more…
A poem inspired by a conversation with Dorota and Stéphane, with a nod to Debra Basset’s research on digital grieving. The violin, in itself, is not violent. What if, says the artist to herself, the instrument’s lines and angles are a shared mental framework of hidden influences and meanings. The Read more…
By E.L. Parfitt, author of Seascape, Shattered Roses and Temptation & Mozzarella. This month I took some time to be creative with a pile of old scribbles I had made in a spiral notebook. Here is the result. Short story: Lies on the cliff It’s an uncertain coming of age: Read more…
The plot: A woman asks a raven to fetch a piece of her lover’s heart. Last month I republished my ebook Temptation & Mozzarella. This month I would like to share a link to a PDF file of the story Raven’s Heart. This is a story I created but did Read more…
Red, there’s a reason why women claim it as their colour. It’s a power colour, interwoven with our right of passage into womanhood. This month I submitted a story to the Scottish Book Trust part a fairy tale and part biography inspired by my journey to doing a PhD. The Read more…
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this” TP Sorry Terry, if you don’t mind me calling you that, but this is not THE END. You were a lover of words, a social commitator, and in Read more…
On the 16th June I went to a discussion about writing emotion with Katherine Angel as part of Warwick Book Festival. Katherine gave a reading that was beautiful and frank in terms of female sexuality. The book is fragmented in structure, the resulting narrative like poetry, true, unsettling, revealing… Listening Read more…