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Guest post on The Undercover Soundtrack

17 April 2012 · On the Holloway Road, The writing process · Comments { 7 }

I am excited to see my guest post on The Undercover Soundtrack go live today. Novelist Roz Morris hosts a weekly series in which she asks other writers to talk about using music as part of the creative process. In the post, I talk about the creation of On the Holloway Road in more depth [...]

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Finding some inspiration

15 February 2012 · Living · Comments { 19 }

Sometimes, as much as I like writing, I get tired of it. Towards the end of last year, it became difficult, and I started to dread it, and I wasn’t happy with what I was producing, and I let myself get too busy with other things. I needed a change of scene. I am fortunate [...]

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The ingredients of fiction

20 July 2011 · The writing process · Comments { 12 }

Writing fiction is not really about making stuff up. It’s more about making sense of what you already have stored somewhere in your memory or subconscious, dusting it off, ordering it and making it intelligible to the rest of the world. The hope is that the things you write about will also resonate with other [...]

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Monday Morning Inspiration #13

Monday Morning Inspiration #13

13 July 2009 · Thinking · Comments { 1 }

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” — Malcolm X

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