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Opinion columns are more than just writing about your opinion. Whilst some writers may pursue this kind of non-fiction writing, others would not consider it as it is outside of their usual discipline. We spoke to […]

Curious thoughts
probe through my
mind
as inspirations
cascade around it.

Finishing my last
line,
no hope passes
through my soul
but anguish and
determination.

Fury and
frustration lay
entwined […]

Follows: Planning

If you are going to put on a poetry night and have planned it to perfection, the next thing you need to consider is promoting it. Promoting is how you advertise a gig. There’s a hesitance a […]

When writing future or fantasy fiction, to make the development of speech realistic and believable, and to ensure the entire story becomes more tangible for a reader, many authors invent their own phrases for […]

Whilst every story features different conflict depending on the characters and plot, conflict in general can be grouped into four distinct categories, each of which contain their own attributes.
Self
Conflict of […]

There was only eleven months between me and my brother. As kids, we’d always found it a bit disgusting that our parents wanted to do it so soon after I’d been born.

My brother and I were incredibly close, par […]

Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is a beautiful novella that manages to contain two intertwining story arcs revolving around a sailor, Ryuji Tsukazaki, and mother and son, Fusako and N […]

Well…I’m Thanet born and bred. I went to Chatham House Grammar School in the ’80s. I’m a mechanical engineer by training, but got out in the late ’90s and worked for Saga (the over 50s specialist in Folkeston […]

Perhaps, if death were kind,
        it would detonate aged muscles like a
                house of planks,
        and so the theatre of feeling
                behind your eyelids,
    aping rea […]