Back story

When I’m writing, and full on in the flow, I sometimes have several different story-lines running, but not all of them make it onto the paper. Sometimes I need to know what characters said and did off-stage, or off-page, in order to have some sense of why things happen. My readers don’t need to have  24-hour coverage of every single little tiny thing, […]

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Soul wound

A soul wound is how the psychologist Edward Tick describes what we more usually call PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; these days it is a commonly recognized condition which can arise from any dreadful stress, but in my next novel ‘Flipside’ David Sullivan is suffering a breakdown through his experiences fighting in a number of different war zones in the 1980’s and early […]

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