Spend any time on Pinterest or Flickr and you’re bound to find a slew of photos of abandoned spaces and ghost ramps. I’ve got a fondness for abandoned houses, theatres, and so on. Both sad and mysterious, they don’t always give up their stories easily. You need a lot of imagination to re-paper the peeling […]
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Charles Dickens in Newcastle upon Tyne
Charles Dickens is more commonly linked with the great city of London. Throughout his career, he immortalised its dark streets and troubled inhabitants in his fiction. But you can also go looking for Dickens in Newcastle – and not just in his stories. The great man himself made appearances at the Music Hall during the […]
How can authors use Evernote for writing?
Ask any writer what they use to write and you’ll probably get as many answers as you do writers. Scrivener, yWriter, notebook and pen, napkin and pen, chalkboard, typewriter, Write or Die, Word… There are a dizzying array of programs or tools available to any writer. It’s usually a case of trial and error to find […]
How do you “Write What You Know”?
If you’ve ever read anything about writing, chances are that you’ll have been advised to write what you know. It’s at this point that some writers will throw up their hands and declare that nothing interesting ever happens to them, so what can they possibly write about? It can also lead you into dangerous territory […]
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Sunken Cities at the British Museum [Review]
Sunken Cities conjures up mental images of Atlantis, but the reality is far more extraordinary. This British Museum exhibition explores the lost Egyptian cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus. Hidden beneath the Mediterranean for over a thousand years, the excavations have been hugely important. They have allowed experts to revisit the relationship between the ancient Egyptians […]
