Second Person Narration – Shells

My flash story Shells was published recently by Reflex Fiction. The story is written from a second person narrative point of view and is one that I had not used before in previous work. This short piece is a reflection The second person point of view, put simply, is...

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H E Bates – Writing from Memory

In his study of the short story, HE Bates said; “A writer’s method is, on final assessment, himself.” (Bates, 1972, p214). A particularly apt statement from an author who, it seems, produced a considerable amount of his midland’s based writing from memory. ...

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Schooldays

My work has appeared in various journals including Paper Swans Press. Paper Swans accepted for publication my flash story ‘Lost Children’ for inclusion in an anthology called ‘School Days.’ Web:     www.paperswans.co.uk Twitter:  @paperswanspress There is also a...

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Uses of the photographical in creative writing

I have been giving some consideration this month to the uses of the photographical in creative writing and its relevance particularly in shorter fiction. By inviting the reader to look through a photographic lens how do we as writers hope to ‘animate’ the reader? How...

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