Although Thanksgiving in the US isn't till next Thursday, the last Exquisite Corpse poem in which I took part has been all about giving thanks. It's hosted on Champagne Dreams, and it's called

First off, an explanation - or confession, however you prefer to read it. Between 1995 and 2006, one of my main pastimes was MOOing: taking part in online text-based roleplaying games run on the MOO platform, generally ones based on Anne McCaffrey's...

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... the sound of me passing 40,000 words, five days ahead of schedule. I'm aiming for 50,000 by the end of Sunday, which means a reasonably easy 2,500 words a day for the next four. The usual daily goal is 1,667, but I've...

Tuesday and Wednesday, I wrote very little; only just 1000 words over the course of both days. And despite another very lively and enjoyable session at Queens yesterday (featuring soon-to-be-p

I hadn't intended to review anything during November, being too busy with NaNoWriMo of course. But my reading of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy has coincided, quite by chance, with the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I - the...