To coincide with Fight Club’s 20th Anniversary and five years since our Write Club first started, I wanted to pay tribute to both!
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That Crimson Petal ~ A Poem
In honour of Remembrance Day, I’ve written a poem. Lest We Forget. Close your eyes and hear my whistle. Backs straight, sharp and brittle. Listen boys, to every sound.Keep those feet, light on the ground. Leaving our home, this pitiful trenchTo charge out there, amongst the stench. Bodies rot upon the grass.We can only wait…
The Silent Prison ~ A Flash Fiction Story
The Silent Prison He’s languishing in there. I can feel it. I don’t need to see him to know how he feels, just looking at those God forsaken walls are enough. What do I do? Cross the road and walk through those wrought iron gates, with my head held high, back stiff and lips pouting…
Flirting With Flash Fiction
Instastory Just Got Real. Literally. A few months ago, I was walking around London, turned a corner and came face to face with this amazing building. I snapped a picture and immediately shared it on my Instagram, like most people in my generation. And like most writers, the cogs in my imagination started whirring and…
The Candyman ~ A Poem
A little something I scribbled down for Halloween. Stay safe kids! The Candyman Many years ago, one Halloween A man laughed with his son. His spirit was high, his mind adrift, Unaware that tonight, he’d be done. From house to house they ventured, Arms all laden with sweets. A fun evening spent together, Through…
The Beach House Diaries ~ Building The Dream House
Thursday, June 2nd 2016 Day 3 – Building The Dream House After an intense few months of writing, re-writing, editing and re-editing, not to mention the mother of all merry-go-round of casting changes, rehearsals for the staged reading of my play The Beach House, was finally upon us. An idea I had come up with in…
The Beach House Diaries ~ The Anatomy of Editing
May 5th 2016 Day 2 – The Anatomy of Editing Editing is like surgery, anatomy to be more specific. Before you laugh, just hear me out. When you cut a line or two, it may seem like nothing… but then when you realise, that one line actually carried a really important part of the…
The Beach House Diaries ~ The Read Through
I’m back! And oh boy do I have a lot to share! Okay so, I’ve been getting a lot of messages from you guys on Twitter and email, asking me about this whole process. And I know that a lot of you really are thinking about venturing into this world or are just very curious…
Present Tense vs. Past Tense. Which is best?
It’s a dilemma us writers battle with all too often. We sit down at our computers or notebooks, ready to feel our story pour onto the page when… suddenly.. we don’t know where to begin. Which time to we want to drag our readers into? Past or present? Now or then? You would think that,…
THE ANTI-HERO VS. THE HERO – WHICH IS BEST?
As a writer I know how important the ‘hero’ is to the reader. Whether we’re watching a film, TV or reading a book, our stereotypical hero has to be the one we love, the one we root for, the one we want to get the girl or guy in the end. We want them to…
Christina Alagaratnam 