Monthly Archives: August 2017

Those first pieces were 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 8,000 words long. But there was a longer story nudging at my subconscious, bubbling up to the surface in bits and pieces and bobbing there ready to be netted and brought aboard. The … Continue reading →

I remember vividly my first attempts to corral scraps of words into a longer form piece. It was over 15 years ago, in a north London cafe which managed to be both aggressively overlit and irremediably gloomy. The words in … Continue reading →