James' Weblog

‘The young and the beautiful have nothing to fear but time (management)’ is a slight reworking of the old W B Yeats quote to accommodate the writer. I say this because the last two weeks have been absolutely awful when it’s come to deadlines and has meant I’ve had to be at my sharpest ever [...]

In Saturday’s Guardian Review they published the ten rules of writing of which my favourite came courtesy of Phillip Pullman: ‘My main rule is to say no to things like this, which tempt me away from my proper work’. As is often the case with good advice, I’ve decided to completely ignore it and compile [...]