I am currently in the midsts of getting the last props, sounds and costumes ready for a play that I am doing at the end of the week. It’s a 3-night run of a play called Jennifer’s Robot Arm by Paul Vickers. It’s a bit silly and fun, and although it can be knackering, stressful and […]
Writing
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10 Great Tracks that inspired Bastardography
During the writing of B (lets just call it B, you know I’m talking about Bastardography when I say B, yeah?) the inspiration to keep focused and to keep writing about difficult personal experiences often came from songs. I thought I’d share them with you in no particular order, although I would say some tracks […]
The first account of a man living with Borderline Personality Disorder?
I kept deleting the word ‘gay’ before man in the title of this blog. The reason being, is that I can’t remember seeing a book anywhere about a man’s experience of BPD, let alone gay, and although being gay myself, and I would’ve found it, possibly, more helpful to have read a gay mans experience, […]
Where Do Stories Come From?
Where do stories come from? Two things happened recently, which reinforced ideas which have been hovering for years. The first was in an interview with the author of Mary Poppins (another Pamela!) when she said that Mary Poppins just came in her window. An actual apparition or an idea? It doesn’t matter. It simply echoes […]
Writing to Order? Nope.
When I was in a coffee shop with my friend a couple of days after the recent Zitebooks launch, she said, ‘Why don’t you write a story about a café?’ People who know I write always say that kind of thing. ‘Why don’t you write about sitting on the train station when the train is […]