One of the stories I wrote for the 2010 Whittaker Prize has made it into the competition anthology. It’s slightly curious, because of all the eight pieces I'd written, The Long And The Short Of It was the one I’d written off as a bad job. A no-frills tale of middle managers in a sales … Continue reading Body Parts And Coal Dust
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Whitt and wisdom
I wasn’t sure at first whether to class the outcome of The Whittaker Prize 2010 as ‘success’ or ‘failure’. There’s a prevailing school of thought that urges people to adopt a ‘glass half-full’ mindset and ‘accentuate the positive’. But it’s always been one of my guiding principles to distrust a prevailing opinion, and besides I … Continue reading Whitt and wisdom