If we had to take a trip to New York, we could probably do it. Money aside, the physical action of getting ourselves from one place to another is relatively straight forward to most people. We would need to get ourselves to the airport, get on a flight to New York and there we would […]
Funny How Time Slips Away – Making The Seconds Count
It’s Sunday, a regular Sunday, nothing out of the ordinary. I know people out there are sleeping off the night before and relaxing, so that should be okay for me right? Yet there’s something that’s making me restless, and it’s the thought that I should always be working harder and longer than I am. When […]
Are you and your characters passive?
Since the beginning of the year, I have been submitting one short story a week for competitions / magazine entries. Having to review so much material for submission, I began to see in some of my older work, a common trait with main characters in stories that I was unhappy with: they had a tendency […]
Come to the Edge
“COME TO THE EDGE! “We are afraid.” “COME TO THE EDGE!” “We will fall.” “COME TO THE EDGE!” And they came and he pushed them, and they flew! (Apollinaire – disputed?) It’s a quiet day and a pigeon is happily chuntering outside my office window. Sitting in my office, which has too much space for […]
