2 Retreat from the Chaos: Urban Writer’s Retreat

What do the majority of writers have in common?  We’re self-indulgent, miserable fuckers half the time and single-minded obsessed sociopaths the other half.  To hang out with us is like walking on hot coals.  If you don’t look down, you won’t get burnt but the moment you do is the moment you realise the soles […]

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2 How Dating Inspired My First Book

Once upon a time a boy met a girl. They had a couple of really nice dates that ended pretty well.  Then she met up with her old boyfriend and all of a sudden boy becomes yesterday’s news.   Now at first glance you’d think boy would be upset at this.  But the truth is […]

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Ten Things Every Writer Should Know in 2014

My friend PP (Real name ‘Pritesh’ – we call him PP because it winds him up) was chatting about his pants earlier this week.  When he called, I couldn’t figure out why he kept banging on about pants and a poor mobile signal caused an odd moment where I wondered if he was going to […]

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NanoWrimo

It sounds like several words mangled together but in actual fact Nanowrimo stands for ‘National Novel Writing Month’.   Every November this incredibly nutty organisation runs a month long challenge.  The challenge itself is to write 50,000 words of a book within 1 month. Despite the slight inaccuracy of the title (there are writers participating […]

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