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Workshops for Spring 2023

A couple of new Four Elements workshops are coming this spring, again in collaboration with Kellie Jackson of Words Away

I can’t pick a single book of the year, so I’m choosing five that really left a impression on me

The Winter Solstice: tomorrow the days start getting longer! Which just goes to show the ever presence of paradox in

I’m very pleased to be planning a new real-time, in-person workshop for 26 November: Reawakenings. It’s been nearly three years

It’s that time of year again – autumn always seems to be the favourite season of writers. Our inner nerd

It’s the summer solstice, and it’s warm outside, and there’s a train strike, and even though I don’t commute it

I still can’t get over the fact of a literary agency charging £649 for a daylong course called How To

Some old, some new, some rereads – my books of the year, roughly in order of reading: Raven Leilani, LusterIsabel

Today is All Saints’ Day aka All Hallows aka the Feast of All Saints aka the Solemnity of All Saints

The idea of want crops up so often as a basic driver of stories – in defining a character’s motivations

Once you’ve established what your characters Can and Can’t do, you can make things more interesting by feeling your way through

I often suggest that writers who are looking for fresh perspectives on their manuscripts take a bit of time away