Until recently, I was a teacher. As it is a profession I may well one day return to, I frequently think about what it means to teach skillfully, to separate…
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The creation of a character’s selfhood, whilst being among the most reflective and involved processes for a writer to grapple with, usually rests firmly on the laurels of compelling narrative…
After the heaviness of last month’s detour into the realm of television, it with pleasure that I return to literature – that door to the human psyche intricately but never…
“Things can only get better!” – Tony Blair, 1997 British Labour Party campaign slogan I don’t write about television. I am not interested in television. I have made an exception….
“He’s a bit confused, but he’s got the spirit…” I love Americans. Few sentences in today’s world will make one less popular with certain demographics, but it is a sentence…
At this young-yet-not-so-young stage of my life, I have realised that among the questionable advice that adults – those well-meaning, often wrong giants and giantesses – like to give children,…
“You can deny reality. But you cannot deny the consequences of denying reality.” – Ayn Rand. “Man does not live by bread alone.” – Matthew 4:4 Wisdom comes in many…
It may come as a surprise given my tendency to criticise – or at best moan articulately – about the times as they are, but I am glad to have…
“That is the kind of fear that lives inside Anakin Skywalker: the dragon of that dead star. It is an ancient, cold dead voice within his heart that whispers all…
The clock strikes 7:30am and my sleep-dusted eyes snap open. My rest was long and deep. My body feels heavy as I remove the sheets and sit up. Sunlight glimmers…