by Adrian | Sep 5, 2016 | Blog, Curated, Musings
If I were to dig out all of the old posts that used to be on this blog, you would find a distinct pattern emerging. It’s probably best described as extended periods of silence, punctuated by occasional short bursts of activity. In fact, it got so bad at one...
by Adrian | Aug 30, 2016 | Musings, Words
I still seem to be stuck in poetry mode at the moment, although these little verses came about in a slightly different fashion. It’s all Facebook’s fault. Well, actually, that’s not quite true, it’s all a guy called Phil McMenemy’s...
by Adrian | Aug 29, 2016 | Musings, Words
When you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll. Yet another poem. This one isn’t dark, it isn’t angsty and it isn’t an airy-fairy exercise in writing some particular form or other, it’s just a poem. I suppose it might be in ballad...
by Adrian | Aug 29, 2016 | Musings, Words
More poetry today – and this one is deliberately a little bit of an arty-farty exercise. It’s also another slightly dark one. Well, maybe not dark, but a bit angsty and the kind of thing that a simpering 18th or 19th century poet-wannabe might have come...
by Adrian | Aug 26, 2016 | Musings, Words
When not trying to dream up characters or plots or similar fictional devices (and when not being silly on Facebook or elsewhere) I sometimes try my hand at a bit of poetry. Although it is often maligned for being “up its own bottom” or...
by Adrian | Aug 25, 2016 | Musings, Words
Authors, critics and experts on writing have identified various models for the creation of characters. One particular model offers four ways to create a character: purely from the imagination (the “ideal” character); by the author basing the character on...
