The Anatomy of Silence of the Lambs

The Anatomy of Silence of the Lambs

Apr 10, 2015 | before, Blog

Shawn Coyne is a story nerd. For this reason alone you should inspect the above graphic closely, scratch your head a bit, then wander over to his website, sign up, devour everything he’s sharing, and warm up your credit card ready to buy the Story Grid book....

1. Author’s Promise

Apr 9, 2015 | Blog, Escapeboard, skate

Every morning I struggle to get up and write, however, now my characters have started to complain. So this is my promise to, Mason and Connor, that I’ll show up to tomorrow and crank out their story: ———- Me: Hey boys, I’ve gotta stop...

I’m a writer, this is how I write

Mar 2, 2015 | Blog

Day one starts by… Waking up Making the breakfast Feeding hay to the guinea pigs Sitting on the sofa Grabbing the iPad and flicking through some sites Then it’s 9am and I’ve done nothing. Day two starts by… Waking up Making the breakfast...

What academics think about writers

Mar 1, 2015 | Blog

This is a response to this blog post about a teacher leaving the creative writing MFA programme and spilling their guts about the award. I couldn’t wait to read this – needing to fire up my computer to do so – but on doing so, it leaves me cringing...