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The First Time
Over the years I have written a number of short stories. This is my favourite.
The Growing Season
Every year there is an internet event called National Novel Writing Week (NANO) in which aspiring writers are encouraged to write a 50,000 word first draft of a novel during the month of November. This works out at 1,666 words a day for thirty days and is very good discipline. In 2013 I decided to enter this competition and develop …
Sinners
Sinners is a novel with two strands, one set in 1952 and the other in 2002. In 1952 the central character, Philip Hudson becomes involved in a situation which leads to the death of his classmate, Lol Wrightson. Fifty years later he has never spoken about the incident until a journalist appears and persuades him to break his long silence. …
My Very Best Friend
I had written a draft of my second novel My Very Best Friend before the course but after discussing it in seminars with one of the Writers-in-Residence I made substantial changes to it. The novel opens in 1990 with the death of Simon Prentice. Among the mourners at his funeral are his sister Ros, his best friend Andrew (Ros’s ex-husband) …
About Me
I have recently graduated from the Creative Writing MA course at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Stories dominated my childhood. I loved reading stories, listening to stories on the radio, telling stories and trying to write them.
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