Sitemap - 2016 - Ponderings of a Part-Time Writer

The gate to storyland

Week 8: Leave it till after Christmas

Week 7: Libraries and summaries

It's not my gender that's the problem

Bits that fell off the cat

Week 6: Living the dream

Week 5: Sleighbells ring, I'm not listening

Week 4: NaNo grinds to a halt

My ten commandments of writing

Week 3: the week it fell apart

The Writer's Life, Week 2

Week one of the writer's life

An essay, a story, a couple of reviews

November spawned a writer

Fiction as a thought experiment

Looking at the future of Iraq through fiction

Ken Livingstone entertains Ilkley

Technological supremacy, the not so direct path

Ilkley litfest: Tim Smith photographs Gujarat

Ilkley Litfest: Mike Jay

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Creative payment: the digital tip jar

Budget airline luggage charges are nothing new

End of the summer days

Dangerous Northern Women

Bradford, City of Film

Flash fiction, fresh out today

Educating girls: have we come as far as we think?

Workshops and exercises

New story (don't mention the referendum)

Fathers Day, a note of thanks

An enjoyable performance in York

Bradford's Buzzing: a weekend at the literature festival

One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson

Aftermath of moorland fire

Northern underclass

Morrissey's infamous novel List of the Lost

Reviews of a couple of books

Quick round-up

The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester

The Establishment by Owen Jones

Morrissey and Hynde: rock lives revealed

Reviewing The Last of the Bowmans

Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

Changing reading habits