The poet is the priest of the invisible.” — Wallace Stevens, from Opus Posthumous. As some readers know I suffer from bouts of depression which drive me away from the keyboard for […]
A Visit to The Emergency Poet
Sallie
I'm blogging my way through the day to day angst of setting down one word after another in the pursuit of publication in its myriad forms. I am fascinated by how creative people can so often get in their own own way and how this impinges output. I am currently working on a non-fiction project centred around the issues of productivity for creatives. I also write short stories and flash fiction and freelance sometimes and have been known to write for food. My first book 'What We Didn't Say' is a collection of my best and most successful short stories and is available in print and Kindle formats via Amazon. I am also published by Ether Books Ltd digitally on their apps for Smartphones and tablets. I am also delighted to be one of the Writing West Midlands Room 204 cohort for 2014/15. By day I do something creativity sapping in operations management.
I have a dog, what writer doesn't? OK well, maybe the cat writer people have cats - anyway he's a Plotthound - what else? I write about him sometimes too. Occasionally I have a bit of a rant about life and other stuff, but mostly I write about writing, creativity and what I'm up to.
2016 Book Reviews –
I’m adding these in a somewhat ad hoc manner and unfortunately, the first three are all somewhat negative. Whilst I have the utmost respect for the writers, these particular stories didn’t work […]
Serendipity or a kick in the pants?
When something like this comes flying through the ether to your inbox, in my case via the weekly email of the very talented William Gallagher, at a time when you most need […]
Done Really Is Better Than Perfect
I once had the brief but luxurious opportunity of writing full time, it was stupendous. It didn’t feel like it at the time because I didn’t really think about it, much less […]
Give It A Go
I’ve added a new page which will be devoted to my efforts to #getcreative in the Friday Challenge associated with the 64millionartists website and the BBC’s Get Creative programme. What appeals to […]
ONE WORD AFTER ANOTHER 