Writing a Novel in Solitary Confinement
Edward Bunker was back in solitary confinement. Nothing unusual about that, the teenager spent most of his time in solitary. Aged seventeen, Bunker had the dubious honour of being the youngest inmate in
A Fiction Writing Cheat Sheet
I have collected many books on writing, and I have even read some of them, but not one book on the craft of writing beats reading fiction. If you want to be a
Still Pecking Out Words
I visit schools and prisons in the UK, where I run creative writing workshops and talk about my writing career. As part of that talk I often tell the story of when I