Ashleylister

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• Not Writing is Easier Than Writing, Right?

  

  To plan for this topic, I decided to not write anything creative for a WHOLE week. This seemed easy as I’d just finished off my portfolio and felt like a break... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Navels of Others

  

  FACT: 43% of all novels have a protagonist whose employment relates in some way to writing.Give or take some numbers, that's approximately accurate. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Time.

  There are lots of reasons not to write. There’s always washing up, unwashed clothes, sunny weather, screaming children, illness, demanding friends, demanding... Read more

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

• Reasons Not to Write

  ...I am dead, Bereft of life, Breathless, Buried, Checked out,Deceased, Defunct, Departed, Done for, Expired, Extinct, Gone to meet my maker, Inanimate, Inert,... Read more

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

• 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