When you are writing your hero, it can be useful to imagine them differently... to see their virtues through a smokier lens, to root out...

Rifling through some old papers today I found this little fragment from 22 years ago and thought I might post it as one from the vault....

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set...

Dear fellow artists: it comes to all of us, sooner or later, the tremendous heart-sickness and revulsion against the world. There is...

This post replicates (for Instagram, the bane of my current life) the style notes set out on my website detailing out the fundamentals of...

This must surely be the holy grail of fiction writing. The ability to tell stories that come from some place other than our conscious...

Jack Kerouac is one of those rare writers who not only pioneered a new literary style, but was self-aware enough to set down its guiding...

If ever a writer had the gift of the Elf-minstrels it was J. R. R Tolkien. His astonishing ability to conjure up fantastic lands and...

Every serious writer, whether they will admit it or not, aspires towards the kind of work that might qualify as genius. Even if they...