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I worked in PR and political communications for over 35 years including 17 years as UK CEO of Weber Shandwick. Now I’m a writer, a Creative Writing MA student and a Visiting Fellow at The University of Greenwich. My views, swearing and Bowie obsession are all, unapologetically, my own.
(Writing about a dystopian novel seems apt this week – the week in which we are as far in the future from the year 1984 as the year 1984 was when the novel 1984 was first published.) Earlier this month I wrote a short story based on the idea of inter-generational conflict in the near … Continue reading John Lanchester’s “The Wall”; part dystopian warning, part contemporary allegory.
One of the simple but effective characterisation exercises we do on my creative writing MA is to write down three unambiguous truths about yourself – and then write down the opposite. So an older dad of five who likes hillwalking, reading and solitude becomes a young, single guy about town who haunts bars and night … Continue reading What studying creative writing can teach you about empathy and the opposite of you
What links a relatively unknown David Bowie song from 1975 to the mess we are in today?
On the road to Orwell’s remote Jura hideaway and discovering Britain’s wildest gin
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