Destination: denouement

The great writer Isabel Allende famously starts each new novel on the 8 th  of January . It was the 8 th  of January in 1981 when she wrote ...

A new year dawns, and with it I break the pause in my writing which I have consciously kept for a year, during 2021.

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, the page remains empty before you. Either empty, or, more likely, filled with innumerable starts and s...

The trick, I sometimes think, to writing a story is not necessarily just to get it written down. Stories can pour forth in voluminous quanti...

Make it a simple story about hope. Make it a story about human resilience. Make it a story where people still laugh, brush their ...

'Blank? My dearest Abel, nothing could be further than the truth. You burst with stories. If your lives were painted they would fi...

It is too easy to allow time to pass. 
 It is too easy to let all the other could, should, woulds get in the way of what it is you really ...

The reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore, farewell. I...

incandescent:   / ɪ nkan ˈ d ɛ s( ə )nt /   (adjective)   1. Glowing with a brilliant white light; emitting an intense light, especia...

He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think how those year...

All the world's a stage,  And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his ti...

How do you place altered states of consciousness in your stories? This is a very interesting question to me. Without giving too much aw...