…I peeked a look over Ms C’s shoulder at the letters Angus, Issy, and Scott wrote to Keira. They said I liked chicken – well, I hope Keira listens as well as she writes and gets me some chicken! By Mr Alien.
Full Story »Impressions of a Travelling Alien – By Mr Alien
Food in a Hairy…”Q”
…Waxing lyrical about the long, curly path of life caused Alanna to choke on a long and curly hair embedded in her passionfruit pisco sour – the “special” of the day.
Full Story »Teetering on the Twitter
…”I just stalked you on twitter. Cant believe you only have 2 followers.” I’m finding it difficult to reconcile whether I should be amused or embarrassed by this fact pointed out by my friend, Andy.
Full Story »A Time to Kill
…unfortunately, my media tutor was not talking about taking a bayonet to my loved one [the open-endedness of that phrase is what appealed to me most]. He was talking about cutting of a different kind: being rid of those verbose elements of your writing to cut to the chase.
Full Story »The Write to Edit
…this is what I learned about editing: writers possess little ability and interest in doing so.
Full Story »Cultural Changes
…Changing a character’s manner of speech so it is grammatically and culturally understood can never hurt [unlike my disparaging and insensitive generalisations of every nationality except my own].
Full Story »You gotta give to get
Finding the “off” switch
…I realised I can’t shake the writer out of me – I applied a literary creative approach to the musical creative process.
Full Story »A version of Persian…“P”
Musing on the news
…The opportunity to extend my freelancing into a permanent role as a financial and legal news reporter really appealed to me and I decided to give it another chance.
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