Shirking proper work in order to fritter away time on a creative writing challenge can make you feel rather guilty,… Read more Erotica, Jane Austen and bestial horror: more from the A-Z story-writing challenge

Shirking proper work in order to fritter away time on a creative writing challenge can make you feel rather guilty,… Read more Erotica, Jane Austen and bestial horror: more from the A-Z story-writing challenge
Helping with the washing up after a barbecue at the weekend, a relation absent-mindedly asked me where she should put… Read more Washing the pretzel, ordering grapefruit sediments and other comical malapropisms
I love it when a good argument breaks out on the internet, and there was a great one the other… Read more Internet row erupts about crap money offered to writers: insults exchanged in heated debate over money
Back in the year 1985 – at least it seems that long ago – someone posted a question on a… Read more Forum members resort to festive facetiousness as the thread that just won’t die nears 300 comments
I was trying to explain to a non-journalist friend what search engine optimisation was, and why it could be important… Read more In which I attempt to boost my Google ranking through devious means