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February 28, 2016
Welcome!
Right Mindfulness: Write Thought is where I write about writing and the crazy world of the mind. Find out about meor rummage in my archives (no, that’s not a euphemism!) using the menus or click the pics: Happy Exploring!Filed under: Uncategorized
February 26, 2016
Obi Wan visits Ouseburn
You see some strange sights living opposite Seven Stories(the Centre for Children’s Books in Newcastle) but this was one of the best: a mini Obi Wan Kenobi walking down the street with his mum. He’d just been attending one of the events at the Star Wars Weekend, and I managed to catch this shot as […]
February 22, 2016
The Shining Ones: first chapter extract
As promised, here’s an extract from the first chapter of my novel about human angels, The Shining Ones. It’s set in the near future in a slowly disintegrating but familiar world which has been devastated after a solar storm. The storm triggered a mutation in a small number of people, called Deviants by the ARK […]
February 19, 2016
Introducing The Shining Ones
I’m busy sending my latest novel out to agents and it’s all rather nerve wracking. Part of this process involves writing the blurb and a pitch for the book. This is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do as a writer. If you think writing the book is hard, just wait until you have […]
February 15, 2016
Slush Pile Woes: the first rejection cuts the deepest
The rejections for my latest novel The Shining Ones are starting to roll in. The first came from Gollancz and I wasn’t that surprised, so the title of this post is a bit misleading. As writers we’re supposed to be cut up by rejections, but I couldn’t muster the energy to care. Perhaps I’ve got […]
February 12, 2016
Favourite Monkey Quotes
Here’s some of my favourite quotes from the totally insane but brilliant TV show Monkey. Silly jokes and Buddhist philosophy – you can’t go wrong… “Just because you’re a Dragon it doesn’t make you better than me.” – Monkey “There is one, it is infinite. Yet what is called Buddha fills it. The one takes […]
February 8, 2016
Monkey Magic! or How Buddhism came to China
To celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Monkey, I thought it would be fun to explore the background to one of my favourite TV shows: Monkey. It’s a cult classic and was on TV during my formative years in the 70s. We would rush home from ballet class (don’t ask) because I […]
February 1, 2016
How a bad writing exercise seeded The Shining Ones
Ideas for novels often spring from unexpected places. The seed that became the sprout that grew into my latest novel arrived in the form of a disappointingly bad writing exercise. The exercise itself wasn’t the problem. You just had to take the opening line of a novel and then continue to write for half an […]
January 26, 2016
Proof that robots will never be authors
Here’s a randomly generated short story I created using Plot Generator – a site that lets you input various details and then creates a random story with your settings. You can use it to get inspiration or just to mess about and have a laugh. The results are proof that creative writing involves a little […]
January 23, 2016
Beyond Words: a commentary on Rumi by Andrew Harvey
On the night of creation, I was awake Busy at work while everyone slept. I was there to see the first wink and hear the first tale told. I was the first one caught in the hair of the great imposter. Whirling around the still point of ecstasy, I spun like the wheel of heaven. […]
