This post is an opportunity to sample a few quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson, around whom there has always been a lot of debate as to...

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set...

Dear fellow artists: it comes to all of us, sooner or later, the tremendous heart-sickness and revulsion against the world. There is...

This post replicates (for Instagram, the bane of my current life) the style notes set out on my website detailing out the fundamentals of...

Jack Kerouac is one of those rare writers who not only pioneered a new literary style, but was self-aware enough to set down its guiding...

If ever a writer had the gift of the Elf-minstrels it was J. R. R Tolkien. His astonishing ability to conjure up fantastic lands and...

This post comes courtesy of my friend and fellow writer Mr W. F. Gadd. It comprises the full text of his 2015 poem Ascension, the first...

Every serious writer, whether they will admit it or not, aspires towards the kind of work that might qualify as genius. Even if they...