– a poem written yesterday for the new collection called “Blue: experiments in sound” which will be finished by the end of this month. Seemed appropriate to share it today… Blue was a big fan – the day Bowie died, he wore black, was on Facebook early that morning telling everyone how devastated he was and then… … Read more
Can a year be a specific colour? Is this some sort of synaesthetic experiment? Well, not exactly. I have written several posts about BlueWater Books and also about the new creative project “Blue: experiments in sound”. So, the nearest I get to a resolution for the new year is to say that this is the … Read more
I did it! Three days of writing and I have completed a manuscript. At the start of the challenge I had 5,000 words and some ideas for what else I could write about. Over the last three days I came up with a title (Believing in What we Do), turned those ideas into a set … Read more
It’s Monday morning and day three of the writing marathon. Let’s begin with some quick numbers. I have written 8,181 words including three blog posts and three chapters of the book I am working on. I have also written three poems. That’s pretty sustained! I didn’t write into the evening on either Saturday or Sunday. … Read more
As promised, here is another blog post to describe the progress I am making with my 3 day writing marathon. In this post I will give a quick update on how the process has gone, then set out the music playlist I have been using, and what progress I have made with the goals I … Read more
It’s a Saturday morning and I am at the beginning of a 3-day writing marathon. I wrote about this concept in an earlier post. This weekend is the first chance I have to put it into practise. I thought it would be useful to capture the process in real-time and see how it goes. Apologies … Read more
Sometimes the gremlins come along and bite you! If you have been reading blog posts here over the last couple of months, you would be forgiven for thinking that everything is flowing beautifully and I am in a state of flow. I read recently in a blog post by Steven Pressfield a comment he made … Read more
If you have been reading this blog for a while you may already know that I set up a press about 10 years ago and produced a couple of booklets by hand with a small print run of 100 copies (see here for a bit more on this). I have always intended to return to this … Read more
This is the latest poem written in the sequence I am currently working on. The sequence is called “Blue: experiments in sound” and it includes a sequence of poems and accompanying sound pieces. It should be finished within the next month or so: BOUNDED PEACE Of understanding I know nothing even when the wind blows through these … Read more
A new poem today – from a forthcoming publication without a title as yet. It’s the fourth sequence of poems about a character called Blue. The first one was written way back in 1985. You could say this character has not let me go: —– “Alone is the only way to be” thinks Blue Misanthropic in … Read more