The unexpected consequences of giving without expectation.
A writer's round-about journey to the next rung of the ladder.
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Mountains & Metaphors
What if?
What if? For fiction writers, the answer can be light or dark. But sometimes it takes reality to deliver the worst scenario.
The Blizzard of the Boardman Tasker
The risky business of entering book competitions, channelling the recent Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.
The diary of lost words
A story of loss, karma, and the whisper of superstition.
Romancing the word
It must say something about my love of bubbles that I remember the champagne served at a London book launch, but not the book being...
Reaching for the highest fruit.
Metaphors, it is said, should grow like fruit from a tree. I like the organic nature of this metaphor for metaphors, for the best...
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