See Edinburgh City of Literature in a whole new light. This wee video by Blue Iris Films captures the flavour. Our enLIGHTen partners at Pufferfish made this fab wee video.

The Legacy of Old Gran Parks. Isobel Blackthorn takes over Roadie Notes. Check out the story behind the story. One of the things I love is finding out where the ideas for the stories we read come from. Some are real places, some dark dreams but most are from the incredible creative minds of my writer friends! March 11, 2018.

I got a B for that exam.

Want to make a career in writing? Edinburgh Napier University has the course for you. We are now open for applications to join our September 2017 class - get in touch! Monday, February 12, 2018. Celebrating MA Creative Writing student success. Two current students on the MA Creative Writing programme at Edinburgh Napier University are celebrating fresh success in 2018. After surviving a tumultuous 2017 in Scottish publishing. Tuesday, January 23, 2018.

MJ Nicholls is a writer and sourcer of saucers. Tuesday, 31 March 2015. An Homage in Imitation of Hervé Le Tellier. I was thinking how the rise of atheism will only help to serve capitalist bastardry. I was thinking I cannot understand the logic of wanting to sire children. I was thinking I have never been seriously impacted by a change of government. I was thinking the more I read the harder it becomes to appreciate truly adequate craftsmanship. I was thinking the more you write, the more the right word.

A thought from the train. Perhaps it is because I do not have the necessary kind of imagination. When I see an everyday object in a gallery, I see an everyday object. It does not speak to me. It could be argued that its prominence is in part due to a mess-media built on, and hungry for, short term sensationalism, scandal and shock. Few art forms can so readily feed that maw.

Dinosaurs in the back garden. Posted by nachovinuela in Uncategorized. We know that evolutionarily the hens are not so distant from dinosaurs. Embryologists tell us that, during their development inside the eggs, chicks actually start growing a tail, like that of dinosaurs, although the process soon comes to a halt and their stumpy tail regresses. Las gallinas y la gente. Posted by nachovinuela in Uncategorized. Me pregunto, si será eso por lo qu.

Thoughts on life, writing, creativity and magic. Never tried to break a curse. I kept pushing onward, picking up one more book and hoping that this method would click.