Em's place

Writing, anxiety-wrangling, tea.

Posts tagged 'short stories'

Newer Entries »

Writing the social media future

Monday, February 15th, 2010

On Wednesday evening I will be standing up in front of thirty clever people who love social media and gather once a month to talk about it in the centre of Bristol. The monthly event is called Brrism and it is great fun. I am, quite frankly, terrified. At times like this I wonder why [...]

{ 22 comments }

How tea and shivers make short stories

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

As the number of Short Story Club members approaches its first milestone of one hundred fantastic, intelligent and extraordinarily good-looking people, I thought I’d explain how I write the short stories you all inspire. I did wonder if that might be boring, but several people I respect on Twitter said they’d love to hear about [...]

{ 12 comments }

Feeding the hungry reader

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

When was the last time you read a book from cover to cover, in one sitting? When I was young and free of such horrors as a mortgage and being the breadwinner for a young family, one of my favourite past-times was reading a book all in one go. I devoured each one, like a [...]

{ 17 comments }

The journey back that took me forwards

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Last week, I went back to London. London… filthy metropolis, a chaotic madness of people, an urban tension that delights, repels, terrifies me. The place that inspired the story that went on to become Twenty Years Later. I went there for a business meeting, and ended up travelling out of the city on the same [...]

{ 8 comments }

What makes a good short story?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

One of my favourite people online, the splendid Diana Maus, has been making me think about this today. She was talking about a story I wrote for a competition and e-mailed to her for a little ‘thank you’. I don’t have enough money to buy some of her art (I almost didn’t link to it, [...]

{ 7 comments }

Newer Entries »