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This novel thing

Posted on February 8, 2023 by thebelatedwriter

After several years of not doing all that much on the fiction front and feeling I probably couldn’t write fiction – despite some evidence to the contrary – I’ve just started sending out a novel to agents to see if … Continue reading →

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Blocked

Posted on May 8, 2022 by thebelatedwriter

I’ve always wanted to write and I’ve always suffered from writer’s block. I picture it as a large oblong block of wood, or sometimes concrete, filling most of the space but leaving just about enough room round the edges for … Continue reading →

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Launched

Posted on April 11, 2021 by thebelatedwriter

In March I launched my second collection of poetry, I never think dark will come, published by Oversteps Books. Here’s a picture of the cover, designed by Oversteps editor Alwyn Marriage with artwork by Devon artist Anne Pirie. I think … Continue reading →

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Belated writing

Posted on September 16, 2020 by thebelatedwriter

These days I don’t write on this blog very much. At one time I kept it up quite regularly, two or three posts a month, but, like so many things in my life, it lapsed. I self-published a compilation of … Continue reading →

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Was I a writer?

Posted on January 21, 2019 by thebelatedwriter

I’ve been going through a time of pain: pain so old and stored so deep I can’t even know for sure what it’s about, and the pain of a current situation which is very far from all bad but which, … Continue reading →

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The dragon lives

Posted on August 20, 2018 by thebelatedwriter

Sixteen years ago in 2002, the year my Auntie Tilly died, I finished a book called Meeting the Dragon. It’s not published, except among friends, and perhaps isn’t publishable: there’s a lot in it that I might not want to share … Continue reading →

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All by accident (3)

Posted on May 25, 2018 by thebelatedwriter

I hadn’t intended to write as much as this about a relatively minor injury and its aftermath, but the story seems to want to go on being told. So, if you’re still with me, here is instalment no.3, my 101th … Continue reading →

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Those things which I ought to have done

Posted on February 18, 2018 by thebelatedwriter

It’s not that long since Imbolc, a time for reviewing both aspirations for the year and broken promises – not just this year’s resolutions but all the things I was going to do last year and somehow didn’t get round to. … Continue reading →

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Getting back into it

Posted on January 15, 2018 by thebelatedwriter

The last time I wrote here was in September, just after my book had been published. That seems a long time ago, and now having published a poetry collection is well on the way to becoming just another fact in … Continue reading →

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Wanting to do it better

Posted on May 16, 2017 by thebelatedwriter

Gradually I’ve been getting back into writing again, producing more poems, thanks to the April Poem a Day online group set up by Simon Williams, and working on a new rewrite of my much-worked novel. I’m altering the time sequence, changing … Continue reading →

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