Tag: writing

  • Chicken World

    I’m in Gateshead at the moment, at the Gateshead ICT Centre and the theme is Space. Yesterday St Ausutine’s Primary helped me come up with a most bizarre story about an Egg shaped planet populated by Chickens and Scaredy Cats. The photos are the first draft that we came up with. The poor frightened creatures…

  • The Editing Process

    I wrote in a recent entry, called Writer’s Block, how I’d taken time to gather myself and work out the ideas for the new series I’ve just started work on. In the end I decided the best thing to do was write a first draft. Which I was very pleased with. So pleased I went…

  • Time Travel, Quantum Physics and Writing Stories

    My dear son, Ed, came with us to see the Time Traveller’s Wife, last night. Afterwards, he had quite a lot to say about the practicalities of time travel and the way it was represented in the film. Everything he said was right, but then everything he said was wrong. He was only prepared to…