I recently completed a short story for the Bridport Prize, titled “Home and Dead With Strangers.” This experience has reaffirmed my belief in the power of deadlines and competition prompts to motivate and sharpen my writing focus. I stumbled across this one on instagram I think, almost immediately after writing about writing completions in this […]
The Motivation of Deadlines: Writing for the Bridport Prize Read Post »
A few things have recently brought the moon back to my attention: My wife and I have been watching “For All Mankind” (which I love and my wife loved certain bits of) All of the articles about the very exciting Artemis project – in particular this article in the Guardian When I was in the
This is a story I wrote about the different types of lunch – those you loathe and love, those you endure and those you relish. it’s partially a story about the corporate grind and part a story of my love of food and cooking. The story The rumbling began dull and low, then spun back
The secret to loving lunch Read Post »
One go at a vignette on my pirate sisters idea The winds whipped up against the wooden sailboat, cruising it along the dark shore. Cleopatra stood aft alongside her steersman while a young girl crouched in the bow looking for signs of rocks in the dark. They used no lamps so as not to give
