All readers read for different reasons. All writers write for different reasons. The reasons I read Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for my GCSE English Literature were different to the reasons I re-read it three or four years later. The reasons I…
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I read because I write
Posted in 2012, Reflections Tagged with: bible, Good Omens, Milton, Neil Gaiman, Old Harry's Game, plagiarism, reading, Shaun Hutson, why we write, William Blake, writing heroes, writing style
Judging a book by its cover: The title
Names are important. They shouldn’t be but they are. In their brilliant book, Freakonomics, US authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner compile top ten lists of children’s names that are most likely to indicate low income backgrounds and…
Posted in 2012, Books, Reflections Tagged with: creativity, hymns, index cards, inspiration, judging a book by its cover, Milton, selling your work, Titles, William Blake
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
