Tag Archives: early writing

Back to Basics?

Posted on January 22, 2018 by hcannam

Anyone remember these little bits of plastic? I found this in a box in my study the other day, when I was hunting for a missing phone cable (why are all cables not standardized, to save all this hassle?). The … Continue reading →

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Not so very long ago…

Posted on June 8, 2016 by hcannam

I had a shock yesterday. Circumstances have forced me to tidy my study (well, when the heating engineer needs to run pipes under your built-in desk unit, that has to be a sign doesn’t it?). In a long-forgotten corner, I … Continue reading →

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Critical pause…

Posted on May 12, 2016 by hcannam

I’d forgotten how much work is involved in writing a historical novel. It’s not just the research, but the need to immerse yourself in the minds and hearts of people living in very different times, with quite different hopes and … Continue reading →

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The critical self-publisher?

Posted on January 5, 2015 by hcannam

Does self-publishing make one more critical of one’s own writing? Or is that something that inevitably comes with age and experience? Maybe it’s simply that most of the books I’ve recently self-published were written long ago (and formerly published by … Continue reading →

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Juvenilia

Posted on December 9, 2013 by hcannam

I was coming up to fourteen at the time, I think. A good friend and I fancied ourselves as a writers. So we set ourselves a challenge: we would each write a story, of which only the title was decided. … Continue reading →

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