Category: Author process
Better Houses
I am writing this on National Poetry Day 2017. I celebrate it every year in some shape or form. Today you find me quietly typing blogs and articles to …
Read moreA Love Letter to Wales
The Nearest Faraway Place is a story about grief. Super massive grief. The type that takes hold of the heart and the brain and freezes them both. But …
Read moreThe Last Bastion
Photo: Sam Coombes, cast member and steelworker. Courtesy John Pountney/Elfen Tata Steel announced in January last year that over a thousand steelwork …
Read moreThe Accidental Thread
In writing, as with any creative activity, there will always be a gap between what you intended to produce and the final result. The finished piece is …
Read moreAbsolute Beginners
Recently, I was commissioned by Academi to write an online guide about how to become a writer, what the literary landscape looks like today in Wales, …
Read moreWhose Voice is it Anyway?
Over the past few blogs, I’ve been thinking about the different elements I’ve had to consider as I write my biography of the woman who was briefly mar …
Read moreWhat Lies Beneath
‘Researching, like writing, is an individual, creative process.’ So says Ann Hoffman, author of Research for Writers, one of the best books on the pro …
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