I’ve always wanted to go to Northern Ireland. I find the accent sexy. Guys with a real Belfast accent – that clipped, fast, adenoidal and charmingly aggressive burr – gets my motor running. So it was no accident that I was taken to a city as aphrodisiac to rewrite and reproof Bastardography. The Editor and […]
Opinion
Posts about issues that interest Zite writers
Even the Boss should clean the Loo
Watching Master Chef earlier this year, something happened which gave me, if you’ll pardon the pun, food for thought. At one point in the penultimate episode, one of the contestants was running late, and one of the others went to help her. He had a deadline too and this episode would put him into the final […]
The Author’s Voice
This is the first time that I have wanted to reply to The Author. It was the editor’s letter which drew me, and words like author’s voice… authenticity. I was going to add genius to the list, but just now on the third reading I find the word is not there. I will pretend it was. It was when I […]
The Way I Write
There were not a lot of books in the house because I was brought up by a single mum who was working two jobs, but I do remember a comic that used to get delivered every Saturday morning. There was this story about these cats ‘Drag A Chair Puss Cat’ and ‘Never Hangs His Coat […]
Dystopian Fiction – why dystopia?
Why Dystopia? The issue of why writers might want to take up the challenge of writing a dystopian novel is a complex one. After all, a writer’s vision of a future society is invariably going to be miserable because, if you think about it, why would anyone want to read about a brilliant future […]