Tricks of the Light

One of the highlights of my year teaching at DeMontfort University is the time I spend working with the third year creative writing undergraduates on their publication projects.

It is a complex process with many stages, including concept design, back and front covers, writing, layout, illustrations and more. There is no doubt that it alarms them at first. But by the end most have produced something about which they can feel rightly proud. In previous years several have told me afterwards that they got more out of it than any other part of their degree course.

A couple of months ago, sitting in the Creative Writing Centre at DMU, I happened to see a pile of publications, which had come back from the external examiner. A thought came to me: this is something I should have a go at!

Tricks of the Light is a story I've written about before on here. It is a short piece, but I have continued to work on it over many years. (I have written five full novels in the same period.) It has changed from screenplay to prose story to performance piece to audio collaboration...

The full article can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/gaslitempire...