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How I Came To Write ‘Reasons’

30-Jul-18 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

How I came to write the title story of my collection of short stories, Reasons. While studying for my Masters Degree in Creative Writing, I was fortunate to have Paul Bailey, novelist and critic, as my tutor for one option. The assignment was to write a 500 word story and I was unsure how to […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Old Man Young Woman, Pamela Pickton, Reasons, zitebooks

Only the River

16-Nov-15 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

Only the River Sweet Thames run softly, for I sing not loud or long…   I am not a scenery girl, or landscapes or country. More an ‘in the head girl’ – poems and stuff, as with the Spenser quotation above. It was while at Twickenham County, the girls’ grammar school (the building in Clifden […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Opinion, Writing Tagged With: Neverland, Reasons, The River, Twickenham, Walking, York House

Seven Ages of Man

20-Oct-15 By Pamela Pickton Leave a Comment

I recently stayed in a holiday resort where there were a lot of retired fire fighters, many of them having been injured on the job, some permanently. I got talking to groups of them and some got up from the table where we had been eating and talking, stiffly, and with difficulty, clearly in pain. […]

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