Paul A.

3 Followers
7 Blog Followers
Following: 1
Following Blogs: 1

Latest Activity

Take Five From Write Anything - 6 September 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 6:42 am
... those who rebelled against the establishment did so out of frustration at their lack of acceptance. I think all writers, artists etc crave the validation that comes from critical acclaim. But ...
Comment - Like

Quite possibly the best thing ever

Paul A. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 3:49 am
I saw this today, and was torn between laughing at how funny it was, squeeing at the cuteness, and bowing down at the sheer awesomeness of it. Why are children these days watching In the Night Garden...
Comment - Like

Chinese Whisperings on Mad Utopia

Paul A. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 3:08 pm
Just a quick note to say that the Chinese Whisperings anthology is featured in J.M. Strother's rather excellent Mad Utopia blog. We're the first to be featured in a series on "Writing in a Ne...
Comment - Like

The recession, in visual form...

Paul A. posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 11:24 am
I think this picture says an awful lot about the effect of the recession: The Thomson Directory, for those not in the UK, is a local directory of businesses. In the photo you can see two editions fo...
Comment - Like

Longhand From Write Anything - 30 August 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 6:01 pm
... article first appeared on the Write Anything website on August 30, 2009. The original text can be found here. This marked my ... .0 License. I don't remember being taught to write. Natura...
Comment - Like

Approaching the blank page - part 4 From Write Anything - 16 August 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 2:29 pm
This article first appeared on the Write Anything website on August 16, 2009. The original text can be found here. This is the last in a four-part guide I wrote describing how I get past my own writ...
Comment - Like

Approaching the blank page - part 3 From Write Anything - 9 August 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 7:01 pm
This article first appeared on the Write Anything website on August 09, 2009. The original text can be found here. Apologies for the delay between posts - I've been a little busy the past few we...
Comment - Like

Writing Goals and Resolutions - October Update

Paul A. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 5:41 am
... stretch of 2009. Here is October's update on my writing goals for this year, and my general New Year resolutions. ... day, aiming for a minimum of two pages each day. Far more writing done...
Comment - Like

One nude, two returns and a whole heap of dates

Paul A. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 4:21 pm
... how little use I made of the time off. Opportunities to write, to read, to draw - wasted. Oh well... Now for the nude. I took my first life drawing class last Friday at the Wellcome Collecti...
Comment - Like

Approaching the blank page - part 2 From Write Anything - 2 August 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Oct 10, 2009, 6:01 pm
This article first appeared on the Write Anything website on August 02, 2009. The original text can be found here. This is the second in a four-part guide I wrote describing how I get past my own wr...
Comment - Like

NaNoWriMo Q&A

Paul A. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 3:12 am
Hat tip to regular Write Anything reader and contributer Benjamin Solah for kicking off this NaNoWriMo meme. Benjamin has posted his own answers, with links to other participants, on his blog, so ple...
Comment - Like

Approaching the blank page - part 1 From Write Anything - 26 July 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 6:01 pm
This article first appeared on the Write Anything website on July 26, 2009. The original text can be found here. This is the first in a four-part guide I wrote describing how I get past my own write...
Comment - Like

Writing Goals and Resolutions - September Update

Paul A. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 6:02 pm
Here we go with September's update on my writing goals for 2009, and my general New Year resolutions. Writing Goals Write every day, aiming for a minimum of two pages each day. I'm still edit...
Comment - Like

Manifesto From Write Anything - 19 July 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2009, 6:02 pm
This article first appeared on the Write Anything website on July 19, 2009. The original text can be found here. This is as succinct a statement of why I write as I can come up with. This is who I ...
Comment - Like

Fiction Friday - 25 September 2009 To thine own self be true

Paul A. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 8:21 pm
This Week's Theme: The house lights dim, the curtain goes up... you’re on. The last night. The last performance. Indeed, the very final performance. There shall be no curtain calls, not this ...
Comment - Like

Overdraft From Write Anything - 12 July 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Sep 19, 2009, 6:02 pm
This article first appeared on the Write Anything website on July 12, 2009. The original text can be found here. I was beginning to suffer a little from burn out on the Write Anything site, and was ...
Comment - Like

The pages are still blank From Write Anything - 5 July 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2009, 6:02 pm
This article first appeared on the Write Anything website on July 05, 2009. The original text can be found here. The pages are still blank The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feelin...
Comment - Like

Whitton Church

Paul A. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 5:10 am
On Tuesday morning I sat in the churchyard of St Philip & St James, Whitton, sketching the view of the church and listening to the Foo Fighters whilst waiting for Julia to finish at the physiotherapis...
Comment - Like

Needs more zombie? From Write Anything - 21 June 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 6:02 pm
This article first appeared on the Write Anything website on June 21, 2009. The original text can be found here. Needs more zombie? It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession ...
Comment - Like

Writing Goals and Resolutions - August Update

Paul A. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 2:30 pm
Here we go with August's update on my writing goals for 2009, and my general New Year resolutions. Late. Unsuccessful. Writing Goals Write every day, aiming for a minimum of two pages each day....
Comment - Like

One million From Write Anything - 14 June 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 29, 2009, 6:02 pm
This article first appeared on the Write Anything website on June 14, 2009. The original text can be found here. I have skipped forward about a month through the archives, as the articles on Write A...
Comment - Like

Smudged fingers

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 22, 2009, 7:34 am
This was sketched out this morning as I was listening to some classical music, I remember Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto, Handel's Messiah, and Spring from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Possibly ...
Comment - Like

Art as therapy, therapy as blogging

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 2:47 am
I don't know if I've subconsciously stolen this imagery from elsewhere. It seems very familiar, which made it fairly quick to draw, but I don't know if the familiarity is from seeing it e...
Comment - Like

Adapting to preference From Write Anything - 3 May 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 15, 2009, 6:02 pm
This is adapted from an article that appeared on the Write Anything website on May 03, 2009. The original text can be found here. Adapting to preference A few months ago I was caught up in a heated d...
Comment - Like

Get rid of the gubbins

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 12, 2009, 12:47 pm
That's one of the to do items for today on the whiteboard above my desk, one that I've ticked off, and it gave me great delight to do so. Gubbins, such an evocative term for them - pointless ...
Comment - Like

Perseid meteor showers 2009

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 11, 2009, 6:21 pm
It seems that it is becoming customary for me to make a post about the Perseid meteor showers each year. Zenith is predicted for 15:00 UTC, 12 August 2009. Rather inconveniently, that's bang in ...
Comment - Like

WWYMCD? From Write Anything - 26 April 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 8, 2009, 6:02 pm
This is adapted from an article that appeared on the Write Anything website on April 26, 2009. The original text can be found here. WWYMCD? Writers are, by and large, a fairly self-centred and narcis...
Comment - Like

Introducing Chinese Whisperings

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 7, 2009, 5:07 am
For a year now I've been working behind the scenes on a business project with fellow writer, friend and, I'm now proud to announce, business partner Jodi Cleghorn. The business idea we've...
Comment - Like

Fiction(less) Friday

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 7, 2009, 3:25 am
It's Friday, and on Write Anything that means it is Friday, our weekly flash fiction prompt. Today I realised it is almost three months since I took part in Friday. Given that I'm one of the...
Comment - Like

Good article, now change all of it From Write Anything - 19 April 09

Paul A. posted an article on - Aug 3, 2009, 2:49 pm
This is adapted from an article that appeared on the Write Anything website on April 19, 2009. The original text can be found here. As the article mentioned below has since been printed, I can tell ...
Comment - Like

Paul A.'s Blogs:

Paul A.'s Followers

Paul A. is Following

Invite Your Friends

Invite your contacts to blogged from:
gmail yahoo