Sustaining creativity. Those are two quite abstract words to describe what is actually (in this context) just a case of sitting down and writing. For a while now I’ve been thinking I should put together a kind of one-page instruction manual on the subject, but of course life kept getting in the way. Then last night […]

Some people spend years working on their first novel. They can’t leave it alone, and it won’t leave them alone; it drags them down, and it stops them sleeping. But these people keep up the pretence of a normal life until, a decade or so later, they just might have something approximating a novel. And […]