Ashleylister

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• Pop Poetry... Euro Style

  Everybody's talking 'bout pop music.As Eurovision swept the UK last night, I found myself infront of the telly- a distinct lack of good foreign beers around me... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lyrical Ballads

  By Ashley Lister I don’t listen to a lot of pop music. I have no ability to focus on more than one thing so, if I’m listening to lyrics and writing at the same... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pop Rockin' Beats

  This is a little rushed and for that I apologise. I had written a post last Saturday, in a foul feel-sorry-for-myself mood, and set up lots of heavy metal... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Ning Nang No?

  

  This week's theme is loosely related to a question I've been considering lately. I've entered a couple of poetry competitions this year. Two of them were... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• iGod

  Marcus had known he was special from a young age. Chosen. It wasn’t something he could explain to people, or had a care to for that matter. He just knew that Go... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pop Music

  New York, London, Paris, Munich everybody talk about mmmm, that’s right pop pickers this weeks theme is all about pop, pop, pop music. Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• We Can All Learn from Wigan.

  A journalist walks into a bar. Eyes fixed on the floor, he shuffles over to the pumps and points to the cider. Three or four times he does this, shuffling back... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Writing and Money

  

  By Ashley Lister "If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favour you can do them is to present them with copies of The... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Let's Get Down to Tacks of Brass.

  

  Since September, the month I purchased a pack of trusty blue bics and never let them go again, a lot of people have crept out of the woodwork to give advice on... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Ten Commandments of Writing (or Do as I Say, Not as I Do)

  Thou shalt build thyself a temple to writingSetting yourself up an area dedicated to writing and free from distractions is essential. I've almost managed this, ... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cerridwen's Advice.

  I am probably going to end up repeating other people's advice, because really the best way to develop your writing is to read other people's stuff and write you... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• ...or Get off the Pot

  This week the theme is advice for aspiring writers. From all the books I have read about writing, all the people I have spoken to about writing and all the... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Exotic Places? If Only.

  This week on the blog we've been looking at the idea of Exotic Places. I'd love to visit one of those, wouldn't you?You could enter our (imaginary) competition... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lost in Translation

  By Ashley Lister I’m indebted to Vicky Ellis for the following poem. Inspiration came during one of Vicky's superlative writing workshops at Central Library. Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Heimat Courtesy of Jenny Schwartz

  If I have to tell you, yet again, that first Friday of every month (that would include today) is the DGP Open Mic Night at Cafe Number 5, then I will. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Her, Indoors

  

  “My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.”Neil Gaiman To a practicing writer, the land beyond the well-worn track between th... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Spanish Guitar

  The general idea of exotic is white beaches, juicy cocktails, sexy barely dressed men and women, pounding sun on your bare skin, cool sapphire seas like... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tanned Bodies

  Sorry about this, I'm on a bit of a Tom Waits trip at the moment.Song (Music to be a piano, bass, swamp blues played to sound slightly out of tune)Tanned Bodies... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Sonnet for England

  This week on the Dead Good Blog we've been looking at the theme of Shakespeare- the man that coined a thousand phrases and has been hated by struggling... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shakespeare's Casting Couch

  

  by Ashley ListerNow old Shaky Bill Had a very long quillAnd wrote plays filled with kings, queens and knightsBut in those bygone days,To play in his plays,You... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION