Heide and I are big fans of index cards as collaborative writing tools. Not only can we use index cards (or file cards or postcards or whatever) to jot down story ideas and arrange them as we wish, kind of…
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Demonic index card games
Posted in 2013, How-to's Tagged with: Collaborative writing, CS Lewis, Demons, Hell, index cards, The Screwtape Letters
Gutterscum’s Performance Management Review
When Heide and I sat down some months ago to bandy ideas about for a comic novel partially set in Hell, we both latched onto the idea of Hell being run like the very worst of bureaucracies. It’s not a…
Posted in 2012, Books, Writing Tagged with: corporate culture, Hanlon's Razor, Hell, Performance Management
If Heaven was a corporation
In our novel, Satan loses his job and is given ‘indefinite leave’ which he is forced to spend on Earth. Such a premise requires that the realm of the afterlife, perhaps both heaven and hell, is run rather like…
Posted in 2012, Books, Reflections Tagged with: arc story, corporate culture, Dilbert, Hanlon's Razor, Heaven, Hell
The Devil and the W.I.
What links the devil with the Women’s Institute? Or, more precisely, who? Go on. I’ll give you ten seconds to work it out. I got thinking about this person whilst doing a spot of research for a chapter of our…
Posted in 2011, Reflections Tagged with: Heaven, Hell, hymns, inspiration, Milton, satan, William Blake, Women's Institute, writing heroes
Hell: A Visitor’s Guide
In our story, Satan has been fired from his diabolical management position and evicted from hell. In our current plans, one possible reason for his removal from office is that some other fiendish individual wishes to seize the reins of…
How did Satan lose his job?
So, Satan’s lost his job, has he? Well, how would that happen? By day, I’m a secondary school teacher. Actually, by night, I’m also a secondary school teacher, merely asleep. My experiences of people losing their jobs comes from my…
