the first post...

So here it is, the inaugural post on "dreaming between the lines" (thank you Flaubert), my first foray into the world of blogs... I should probably start by explaining what all this will be about. To put it simply, I'll be writing about writing. Helpfully, I'm a writer, of novels, stories and screenplays, and I'll be exploring thoughts about writing, theories, ideas, philosophies - manifestos - as well as sharing tales of my own experiences as I try to gain my way into the citadel, the promised land of publication. I've had a small taste of this so far, with stories published in two anthologies (Bristol Tales, Watermark). The story published in Bristol Tales is the first chapter of a novel, which I will be sending out into the writing world in the hope of finding a lovely agent... Having completed numerous and brutal edits, I now have the fully realized version of that original dream...