As promised earlier this week, a guest blog post from my 13 year old nephew, Steven, the inventor of the new genre in literature, ‘Horror Comedy‘. PS: He lives in London, which may explain the importance of tea in his life. Some things that I hate – by Steven Reingold: One thing that I really…
Category: writing
A horror comedy
My nephew is 13. He’s one of my favourite writers. He’s penned some hilarious essays for school (in some the comedy is intentional, in others it’s purely by chance). Last month, for an assignment he wrote an essay about a dream he had (burglaries, zombies, the works). I thought it was great, so was surprised…
Back to the future.
Today is my first day back at work. This is going to be a momentous year. I can just feel it. Full of massive amounts of writing, making ads and working my ass off. So far I’m off to a good start: I’ve tidied my desk.Repacked the bookshelf.Made some tea.And used altogether too much bubble…
Do you want to write?
I have quite a lot to thank Sarah Bullen for. Back in 2008 when I finally got tired of unsuccessfully trying to figure out how to write a book on my own, I did one of her courses. I did a week-long, half day course, and Sarah gave me the kick up the ass that…
writing sex scenes
I wouldn’t ordinarily spend too much time thinking about what to call my private parts, not usually finding a need to mention them in my day to day life. But as most of you probably already know, I recently had my first novel, A Million Miles from Normal, published by Penguin, and as it’s a…