I have just published a new episode to my "WalkingThruFire" podcast. It is the short story "The Next Bond Girl". I hope you like it.
Category: Fiction
New books!
I am delighted to announce that these publications - the result of a number of years' work - will be published on 21st May: Praise for Once Significant Others: “Sally Rooney meets Henry James” – Jim Friedman “this honest exploration of human nature helped me understand myself better” – Ann Pelletier-Topping “a story that questions the … Continue reading New books!
Yesterday & Today: 1st May
I thought my Crash read-through yesterday morning went well. Having done it so often now I get a sense of where I'm hitting the right notes / tone / emotion and where I'm not. Just under six weeks before the performance and half the tickets already sold... I may get a chance to 'dress rehearse' … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 1st May
Yesterday & Today: 30th April
So Twitter have made another one of those knee-jerk random decisions and with no notice at all withdrawn the ability of WordPress users to automatically post to their Twitter accounts. Facebook took a similar, but slightly less extreme measure, a year or two ago (only allowing you to post to a page). This is what … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 30th April
Yesterday & Today: 29th April
After all the emotion on Thursday at the Athol Fugard event, perhaps inevitably yesterday was something of a damp squib. Just about the only meaningful thing I managed was some work on "C", the rest of the day being sacrificed to domestic 'life' things which had to take priority. But that's what life does, right? … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 29th April
Yesterday & Today: 28th April
In many ways yesterday was something of a 'monster' day, four chunks of time spent doing very different things - one of which was astonishingly moving... The first two of these time-segments - me, alone, working in my study - were pretty run-of-the-mill: a read-through of Crash, and some drafting of "C". In terms of … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 28th April
Yesterday & Today: 27th April
For the record, this is day 118 of consecutive posts..! So what did yesterday - day 117 - deliver? A new podcast episode for a start. "The Big Red Button" is taken from my short story collection, An Irrelevant Piece of Sky, which is published next month. The podcast - WalkingThruFire - can be found … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 27th April
“The Big Red Button” – new podcast episode!
I have just published a new episode to my "WalkingThruFire" podcast. It is the short story "The Big Red Button" taken from my forthcoming collection An Irregular Piece of Sky. I hope you like it.
“Kick the Latch”
Admittedly you probably need to have a soft spot for the subject matter in the first place, but surely what makes Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch so eminently readable is the style in which it is written: a collection of flash fiction pieces which, when strung together, make a coherent narrative. If there are joins … Continue reading “Kick the Latch”
Yesterday & Today: 26th April
It is both interesting and understandable how writers fixate on word count when producing longer works of fiction. What else is there by which to measure them? And it's a useful boasting chip! I know I've referenced word count in this diary to demonstrate progress. But the thing I find more meaningful is number of … Continue reading Yesterday & Today: 26th April
Ian Gouge - Writer 