shortstories – The Literary Onion

Street Crawlers are a rare breed. These people who trawl the streets looking for any form of shelter have their numbers of the breed declining, and yet still they are a worry for the over-growing population. Then how can it be that even now, with such low numbers, their kind continues to be broken up… Continue reading The Street Crawlers 1: The Street Crawlers

How to Write

How To Write Characters.

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From Stick Men to Humans to Everything In-Between Sitting down and thinking through my ideas for blog posts (of which there was a horrendously long list, so apologies) I had to move this idea to the top of my pile. Characters are, for me, the most important parts of a story—and I don’t feel like… Continue reading How To Write Characters.