In memory of Auntie Pinkie. A beacon of love, inspiration and spirituality. She travelled the globe and people loved her wherever she went. A poem in memory of Auntie Pinkie. Wanted New body for open-hearted soul, Described by some as “an elegant hippy”. The candidate must be willing to travel Read more
The AIIRA Writing Contest AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA) The competition: Think of a career you’d like to have in the future. How might AI technology advance your field and help you perform your job within the next decade? What aspects or duties of your job may become irrelevant Read more
First lines. Confused? May be we sweat a little too much about first impressions. There’s nothing to them. The best way to find them is often to write and a sentence will jump out at some stage. In other words, don’t worry about first lines until you’ve written the entire Read more
For a breakdown of the different types of dash/hyphen see my article on Em dash use in formal writing. The easiest way to understand em dash use in creative writing is to read and decide for yourself what works and what doesn’t work. So below I will demonstrate through three Read more
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
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
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