Hi everyone, It’s National Poetry Day next week and the theme is ‘refuge’. So, I put together a little string of cinquains to mark the day. Hope you enjoy them. Refuge A home, That’s all they need, A place to sit and think, Untroubled for some short moments, By that. That thing, That’s always there, […]
Read more "Refuge – a poem"Hi everyone, So, I’m coming to the end of the summer holidays but I’m so excited to report on the progress I’ve made with Book 2 of The Ardenna Crossing. With a couple of days in Reading library (my writing retreat of choice) and a couple more days I was lucky enough to get to […]
Read more "Ardenna Crossing Update!!"It was great to see one of my old pupils a couple of weeks ago. I was back at my old school for the summer fair and she came along to say hello (and some other really nice things). I was really blown away and I wanted to prove that what I told her was […]
Read more "Thanks, Darcie!"So, we had a camp out on the school field on Friday night. 50 children in tents under a beautiful starry sky. At about 1:20am, out of the corner of my eye, I saw flashes of light far off. They were persistent so I made my way to the other end of the school field […]
Read more "Flashes and Worry – a poem"Hi there, Wrote another poem today during my lunch break, thinking of summer days spent lying around in long grass meadows. Soft like the bed of long grass in which I lie, Soft in the caress of the pastel blue sky. Soft like the hazy thoughts that ebb and flow, Adding up to nothing much […]
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Read more "Some Woodland Haikus"Hi everyone, I realised today that I haven’t written anything about this film. After all those posts about the first instalment, I’ve been completely silent on this one. It’s getting close to trailer time; it can only be a few days before we all get to see something that only a few have seen so […]
Read more "Casting Dune 2 – Vanity Fair first look reaction"I run this Pokemon club at my school. They all get to bring their cards in on Mondays and at lunchtime I sit there while they trade. It’s like Wall Street. I watch them all do their deals and bargain and show off their best cards in their folders. I sit by and I know […]
Read more "Trading – a poem"Haven’t written anything of my own for ages. I was really struggling for inspiration and feeling a bit desperate, so I clung on to the only thing I could think of: todays UK National alert text. Sorry I’m advance but I needed to write something, anything. Poised for an alert, A whole nation’s attention, Waiting […]
Read more "Alert – a few haikus"Hi everyone, It’s been a while but I have been doing writing-related things in the background. At school, I have been doing a writing project with my Year 6 class. We read a load of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks (the ones by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson) at the end of last year and then in […]
Read more "King of Chaos – new book out now!"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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