Am I the only person whose creativity is in inverse proportion to their common sense, or are others of you willing to admit to this too?
My latest novel OUTLAW contained several scenes in the heart of Predator Ground Control at a secret airbase. A Predator pilot and sensor operator are preparing to launch a Hellfire missile on a suspected terrorist camp in the Sahara Desert. One of them has struggles with conscience, the other appears not to. I read a [...]
Writing, like chess, is a famously sedentary activity. Authors spend their days sitting hunched over a keyboard, and the only exercise they get is wriggling the fingers, wrinkling the brow and reaching for Rich Tea biscuits. As the deadline nears, the hapless keyboard-basher begins to ignore her body’s needs for sleep, social interaction and physical [...]
Authors are well aware of the benefits of blogging, and a serviceable blog is now a tool of almost every author’s trade, alongside the HB pencil and the moleskine notebook. As an author, and as a recent but enthusiastic WordPress adopter, I thought I’d put together a list of ten WordPress themes which are ideal [...]
So I came across this blog today via @inspirationbits: People Reading Books in Public Places Here in Burkina Faso I hardly ever see someone reading a book in a public place. There is a great discussion in JM Coetzee’s novel Elizabeth Costello about why you seldom see people in Africa reading on buses. It’s not [...]
