Monday Motivation: Writing hones a key life skill
One of the little-regarded spin-off advantages that writers enjoy, is that, through their writing, and through the stories they fabulate, they exercise a skill essential to us all, writers and [...]
Monday Motivation: The truest joy of creation
Here’s a thing: in our bookshop in Wigtown, south Galloway, we have, at a rough estimate, some five thousand books. They’re all second-hand, of course – and they fall into a wide variety of [...]
Writing Secrets: Do you have a story to tell?
When I was a very young student, a lecturer of mine – something of a Svengali, if I think about him now – asked me why I wanted to write. I burbled something about my passion for expressing [...]
