It being #NationalPencilDay, here are a few of my workhorses.
Thank you to all of them.
I've blogged about my other Means of Production over on Substack.
https://t.co/QEcBDyNupu
Next week, I am delivering a lecture on ‘The Future of Digital Publishing’.
I have plenty of ideas, I’m just not sure they’re good ones — or that they’ve been challenged enough.
What echoes of the future do you hear? Eco-sigh, tech-whoop?
https://t.co/8zF3iV1DZM
What's your favourite pencil that you've every owned?
Today's diary entry on @substack covers the practicalities of writing with pencils.
(Yay, write upside down, hanging from a tree.)
https://t.co/w7TUe7C45b
If you're a writer, how and where do you write? What's your posture like?
How's your spine holding up?
Any advice for others?
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
https://t.co/5uZ53LYxED
Look, I'm here, rather than working.
How do you cope with/limit/work through the distraction of your screens?
Today's diary entry way over yonder on Substack.
On Distraction and Overcoming It
https://t.co/AXAk7x9o8e
'Fiction could do with a little more farting: every fart is a surprise, a failure, a joke, an event.'
Almost my favourite quote from Elizabeth McCracken's A Long Game.
Do you agree? Can you name any farts in fiction? (Apart from Ulysses.)
https://t.co/1GBABlmqMY
If you're taking a Creative Writing class this semester, I put together this view about POV.
How to Talk about Point of View in a Creative Writing Workshop https://t.co/0GWW0pt1UQ
How to Improve Almost Any Short Story in 30 Seconds
Well, 47 seconds for the video. But the changes could be made in 30 seconds.
https://t.co/nGMSBs4BoV via @YouTube
New Year, New Writer's Diary.
This year, I'm going - with my subscribers' help - to draft a writing manual (working title is 'The Page: On Drafting').
I'll be podcasting about it on my @Substack.
Together, hopefully, we can write our books.
https://t.co/l0snAYFOqt
New Year, New Writer's Diary.
This year, I'm going - with my subscribers' help - to draft a writing manual (working title is 'The Page: On Drafting').
I'll be podcasting about it on my @Substack.
Together, hopefully, we can write our books.
https://t.co/l0snAYFOqt
I'm reposting some of my writing advice videos, to go along with launching A Writer's Diary Podcast.
Here's the most popular -
My Favourite Creative Writing Exercise of All Time https://t.co/GLxhO8ReDp
@HumanitiesUoS@SotonEnglish@philipwhale@Carole_Burns@UoSMedia
I'm reposting some of my writing advice videos, to go along with launching A Writer's Diary Podcast.
Here's the most popular -
My Favourite Creative Writing Exercise of All Time https://t.co/GLxhO8ReDp
@HumanitiesUoS@SotonEnglish@philipwhale@Carole_Burns@UoSMedia
"For the overwhelmed poet, this poetic artifice is deeply enabling, allowing what was previously unspeakable to finally be spoken."
'the overwhelmed poet'!
This year's FT Prince Memorial Lecture by Dr Mary Jean Chan was outstanding -
https://t.co/HEDE4kNJRZ
Creative Writers wanted: Call for abstracts
Stories of ‘Separation’ and ‘Gathering’ in Legal and Creative Imaginaries: a Legal Humanities and Creative Writing Workshop
Wed 1 and Thurs 2 July 2026, @unisouthampton
Deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2025.
#WritingCommunity