WRITER
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, […]
MoreBefore I could write, I told stories, first to myself then to my sister; when I became a teacher, story telling became an intrinsic and vital part of my way of delivering the goods. Story telling in my teaching wasn’t just going through something in a text book, I would recount tales of my […]
MoreI’m often asked where the ideas for my stories come from and as I have said before there are all sorts of triggers for me, images, snatches of conversation, news items, people at a party… It’s difficult to remember exactly where ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ came from… certainly I had wanted to write a story about stalkers […]
More
