Ashleylister

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• 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

• Getting into the Lingo.

  

  “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”(All’s Well that Ends Well, Act 1 Scene 1)Shakespeare was the original hippy. He created ideals of love and devotion... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• But Thinking Makes It So

  

  Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead parrot.Owner: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!?Owner: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin'... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Modern Language

  Couple of weeks back at the last BDGPS meeting at the Cafe 5, I delivered a mini lecture about how to Shakespeare more interesting to the youth of today. I... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Old Rivals

  Good afternoon readers. This week on the blog, we've been looking at Cats vs Dogs, a theme so divisive it could rival Margaret Thatcher. Personally, I've only... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fifty Shades of Dog

  

  by Ashley ListerThere are many different kinds of dogs: There are smelly dogs, fat belly dogs; scratchy dogs and snatchy dogs; mad dogs, bad dogs, glad dogs... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Would You Date This Man...

  

  Cat’s. Sodding Cat’s. I really can’t stand the little bleeders. If I was a character in a novel I’d either be evil or killed off really quickly. Or I’d be John... Read more

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

• Mass Hysteria!!!

  

  Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"? Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old... Read more

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

• Your Cat is a Wanker

  If you go down to the Blue Room enough you’re sure to eventually stumble across a favourite band of mine by the name of Dinosaurs are Shit Dragons. Read more

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