I would like to offer my website subscribers a free month's subscription to my Substack site. However, in order to do so I need to be confident that you have accepted receiving emails from me. I'm pretty sure you have as you'll get an email every time I put out a post like this one! … Continue reading Free subscription anyone?
Category: Fiction
This week’s recent Substack activity…
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New content for you on my Substack site!
Having spent the best part of the last two days shaping my Substack site and uploading its initial content, I thought I would let you know what's there - and what won't be here... A section dedicated to works-in-progress. The first entry here introduces a photography/poetry collaboration I've started to work on, and includes the … Continue reading New content for you on my Substack site!
Come on over to Substack!
I'm beginning my Substack journey! Please come on over! https://open.substack.com/pub/iangouge/p/writing-is-a-lonely-business?r=2wlvty&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I was curious, so I looked…
My website has had: nearly 7,000 views around 3,000 'likes' nearly 4,000 visitors and I have written 1,008 posts So a simple 'Thank You' to all those who have contributed to those numbers! Note: sculpture Seated Man II by Elizabeth Frink, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
Putting pen to paper – w/c 16th October
Time to look back / forward. How did I get on last week? Meetings and Events - host Derby Stanza; YES attend Lincoln Creative Writers' meeting. YES Writing projects - start drafting a new short story; YES continue working on Bound; YES work on Character profiles and timelines for the possible futuristic novel; NO recording … Continue reading Putting pen to paper – w/c 16th October
New podcast episode!
I have just published a new episode on my Walking Thru Fire podcast. I am intending to read all of the poems from my collection Not the sonnets; in this episode I read sonnets 15 thru 21. Walking Thru Fire is available on all good podcast services: Audible, Spotify, Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, Deezer etc.
“Reality and Other Stories”
Although I liked John Lanchester's "The Wall", I have to confess to a little disappointment with "Reality and Other Stories". This is partly down to the nature of the stories - more subject than style (I've never been into the supernatural) - and partly down to the fact that I think he has been let … Continue reading “Reality and Other Stories”
New podcast episode!
I have just published a new episode on my Walking Thru Fire podcast. I am intending to read all of the poems from my collection Not the sonnets; in this episode I read sonnets 8 thru 14. Walking Thru Fire is available on all good podcast services: Audible, Spotify, Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, Deezer etc.
Putting pen to paper – w/c 9th October
Time to look back / forward. How did I get on last week? Meetings and Events - attend North Yorkshire Stanza; YES attend SoA workshop on 'Twitter for Writers'. YES Writing projects - start drafting a new short story; NO continue drafting the new poetic monologue (working title Bound); YES recording seven more sonnets for … Continue reading Putting pen to paper – w/c 9th October
Ian Gouge - Writer 