Legibility was never high on the agenda
Dear Ren, 11th December 2016, 19:42 I start this knowing that I won’t finish it today, but I felt the need to start it anyway. Last night I got an… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Life
Those perfect moments you wish would last forever; and infinity
Dear Ren, 4th December 2016, 12:15 Once again, my desk is littered with all sorts of detritus; things done and things undone – and an almost overflowing ashtray, bad man… Continue Reading
Religion, politics, and a space to breathe
Dear Ren, 23rd November 2016, 20:29 Just a quick start to this. Thanks for your letter which arrived as I’m struggling with the middle section of Ice Child – the… Continue Reading
Tangents, and not tangents
Dear Ren, Interesting, these letters. I love the way they go off on tangents which then prove not to be tangents at all. And I think I like writing these… Continue Reading
Otherness, writing & real letters
My dear Ren, I’m so glad I followed my instinct and wrote and sent you my last letter in its physical form. Glad it arrived with you on a dark… Continue Reading
Women, men, writers, bodies, and metamorphosis
Dear Ren, I don’t even know where to start. When I worked as a teacher in Germany in in 1980/81, Anna (Oscar’s godmother) and I wrote each other letters that… Continue Reading
Cats and dogs and middle-age and music and parenthood
Dear Ren, As always, I’m listening to some new music when writing, because, contrary to many other writers I know, I need sound to put my words together. It’s so… Continue Reading
Precious Metals
It’s almost a month since our 25th wedding anniversary. Real life reclaimed us all too quickly after a wonderful two days in Torrevieja where we retook our vows, witnessed by… Continue Reading
The Ice – addictive, dangerous, and deadly
Only last night I was talking for an hour with a friend of mine who’d just finished reading Dead Men, telling him how, in my short time on the Antarctic,… Continue Reading
Decisions, decisions – integrity
As you may imagine, having been traditionally published and then dropped by your publisher because you’re not “commercially viable” can be a bitter pill to swallow. However, there are some… Continue Reading