When I was last doing face-to-face writing groups, I used to bang on endlessly about "writers' moments" and "the extra in the ordinary"....

The wandering earth is a new Chinese Sci-Fi blockbuster. In their attempt to take on Hollywood's social dominance, the Chinese film...

The Girl is a song from the musical production of Only Fools and Horses. It's a poignant piece about how a young woman's dreams fare...

Most writing group tutors will advise it. And most writing group students will ignore it. But here's some top-level affirmation. Speaking...

This is so very useful. Read it. Remember it. Look at your own writing and see how this relates to it.

Is the ravine real and deep and dark at night? It was, it is. I took my daughters there a few years back, fearful that the ravine might...

Not the usual People's Friend fare. But, then, it so often isn't/ Don't let preconceptions deprive you of a good read.

While we were in Scarborough (Summer 2021), Julie and I went to the Stephen Joseph Theatre to see Home, I'm Darling. The play, written by...

The wonderful Sheila Templeton had a meditation seminar, then she went for a walk with a friend - then they went for chips! Afterwards,...

This poem by Aracelis Girmay is epic, and wonderful... and sprawling! Have a read - You Are Who I Love You, selling roses out of a...

John Mee's book has poems about the wreck of the Dalhousie, the assassination of Albrecht von Wallenstien, Frankenstein, becoming an...

North Ayrshire Libraries posting this, challenging us to make a poem from or inspired by) the titles. This... or a random selection of...

The writer Lemn Sissay MBE has a thing about names - as well he might. Taken from his mother after he was born, a social worker decided...

Breakfast at our B&B was spread across two rooms. Julie and I ended up in a room set for four lots of guests. At our table was... well......

I love this story prompt from Mslexia. It's personal, it's immediate, and it's absolute, requiring either an explanation or a reason why...

I never thought Victoria Wood's comedy was all that edgy. Funny! But not edgy. I'm looking through her (autographed) sketchbook and...

I posted these pics of two of my grandchildren at the beach and a writer friend commented, "That's the essence of summer!" There's the...