Graham Storrs

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
(from ‘The Waking‘ by Theodore Roethke.)
Writing is a strange business. Last night I killed my babies.
I woke at about 3 am, drenched in sweat, even though it was cool. My head was full of purpose. I knew what to [...]

One of the first things that struck me when I became involved with writers’ groups, was that most aspiring writers can’t write. They may be full of wild imaginings, they may have stories in them, yearning to be told, but, as well as lacking the more esoteric skills of the craft, they can’t form a [...]

I ran the complete set of posts from this blog through the Wordle program. Wordle calculates word frequencies, translates them to physical sizes, and uses this information to lay out the most frequent words in interesting ways. The image below, therefore, shows you just what I talk about most in this blog. If you haven’t [...]

I’ve just spent half a day working on the schedule for the TimeSplash Blog Tour in March and April, contacting everybody involved and trying to firm up all 16 dates. Just another facet of the writerly life that no-one ever bothers to mention. I’d rope Wifie in to do all my admin (she’s great at [...]

The following email came to me from Ed Patterson. It was originally from Al Past. It explains itself, I believe.
Do you know anyone deployed overseas, or even in the military? If so, here’s a simple way to do something tangible to help those folks get through their hitches: Operation E-Book Drop.
Troops overseas are hard up [...]

No, not a post about the Battle of Thermopylae just a few comments on building up a following on Twitter. Yesterday, you see, I had 300 ‘followers’ for the first time. Unlike King Leonidas, I won’t ask my gallant band to give their lives in a hopeless rearguard action against the armies of the Persian [...]

Finally, part 5 of  my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set.

Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real.
Be honest about what is real and what is not real.
Do not write if you have nothing important [...]

And here is part 4 of  my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set.

Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real.
Be honest about what is real and what is not real.
Do not write if you have [...]

Over the past two days, I have published the first two parts of  my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set.

Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real.
Be honest about what is real and what is [...]

Yesterday, I published the first expansion on my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set.

Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real.
Be honest about what is real and what is not real.
Do not write if you [...]