This post first appeared at the wonderful blog site, This Craft Called Writing, which really gets into the techniques behind writing. LESS IS MORE I’m a great believer in less-is-more. That should be apparent merely from the page extent of my books – they tend to the shorter side, in some cases, very deliberately so….
Month: September 2013
Western Isles Tour 5/5
The final day of this tour of the Western Isles took us to Barra, and the sun returned, having not been seen since Monday. Barra is a gorgeous little island and the people really friendly. I’ve been delighted to be able to come to the Western Isles thanks to the organisation of Scottish Book Trust…
Western Isles Tour 4/5
Day Four! The weather has really closed in on us now, but still there is no denying the beauty of these islands, even in the wet. And there is no denying also the friendliness of everyone we meet here – including complete strangers – last night a family passing by stopped to ask if we…
Western Isles Tour 3/5
Day Three of the Scottish Friendly/Scottish Book Trust tour saw us well fed and rested after a lovely dinner last night, at which we met Kathleen Milne, head of library services for the Western Isles. We chatted about all sorts of things and it was interesting to hear about the role of mobile library services…
Western Isles Tour 2/5
Day Two of this tour of the Western Isles of Scotland took us to our most northerly points – the villages of Back and Tolsta, where Team Scottish Book Trust/Sedgwick descended on their respective primary schools. These were smaller events than yesterday in terms of the number of children at each school (though not as…
Western Isles Tour 1/5
This is the first of five mini-blogs describing my week long tour of the Western Isles of Scotland. The tour has been organised by ScottishBook Trust and very generously sponsored by Scottish Friendly (more about them later in the week). Lady Sedgwick and I arrived in Stornoway yesterday, flying up from Glasgow in a tiny…
Undiagnosis 