In love with a plague doctor
A girl is determined to fall in love with a plague doctor.
Can she succeed?
What’s he really like under that dark forbidding mask and bird-like beak that covers his face?
Is he a monster?
Or is he a normal human being who is also looking for love?
How to chill to an ambiguous word
That embarrassing moment when you realise that you’ve written a word that can also mean something else….
First, do no harm
It’s easy to be contemptous of history, contemptous of historical figures, to mock certain military generals for…
To my horror
This piece of writing seemed fine at first but when I edited it I saw that it…
Eco warrior warfare
A prominent eco warrior is to swim across the Atlantic instead of flying in order to avoid…
Scene breaks overkill
Scene breaks are a way of separating scenes in novels, to distinguish the end of one scene…
Are you ready now?
Or are you now ready? This was a pretty interesting exercise in how to use your writing…
Turd or spy submarine?
A huge turd has been spotted floating off the coast of Sweden – but defence experts fear…
Shooting a promotional video for a historical novel
Just a few thoughts on shooting a promotional video to publicise a historical novel and posting it…
The role of the Confederacy in World War 2
This epitaph, ‘for your tomorrow we gave our today,’ was published on a Confederate page relating to…
