Icy's Blunt Pencil

At first glance, writing a book specifically about beginnings, middles and ends might seem a bit odd. After all, a story contains all three,...

Today is Launch Day for the latest Literary Mix Tapes anthology, Eighty Nine . My story, Thirty Years in the Bathroom , is online now, but o...

New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photog...

Thursday night saw the first launch party for The Guns of Retribution ! I hired the back room of Bob Trollop's, a small pub on Newcastle...

This post has been taken down as the story is now out for submission - wish me luck!

On Monday night, I watched an item on BBC News about a new Van Gogh biography that attempts to explode the legend that the troubled artist ...

Writers are forever being told that good stories rely on conflict or drama. "There is no story if the protagonist has to problem to sol...