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Guess Who?

Dan Powell wrote 7 months ago: My lax approach to shaving has lead to a full beard reappearing. Now when I look in the mirror I see … more →

Tags: Movies, Short Fiction, guess who

Inspiring stuff

Dan Powell wrote 7 months ago: Busy reading and editing and writing at the moment, inspired by the following: Efterklang’s ne … more →

Tags: Music, Books, Writing #2, Short Fiction, efterklang, Writing Music, happy camper, Stig Dagerman

Back to School: Mature Student Online Edition

Dan Powell wrote 8 months ago: This week marks the beginning of my second year on Manchester Metropolitan University’s  Creat … more →

Tags: videos, writing courses, Novel In Progress, M&A, Paraxis

Literary Man in Pictures1 comment

Dan Powell wrote 10 months ago: Found the following via The (excellent) Literary Man blog. At last count I have ‘collected … more →

Tags: Photoblogs, the writing life, writing, the literary man

Graffiti-head published

Dan Powell wrote 11 months ago: My latest short short story is up at 1000 Words. It’s called The Song of the Graffitihead and … more →

Tags: Published stories, Short Fiction, national flash fiction day, Arvon, The Hurst, 1000 words

#NFFD The Morning After

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: Well that was National Flash Fiction Day. Not being in the UK put a limit on what I was able to take … more →

Tags: Published stories, Events, national flash fiction day

What can you do for National Flash Fiction Day?2 comments

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: Well, there’s less than week to go but you could: submit a 500 word story to Flashflood take a … more →

Tags: Fiction, Short Fiction, national flash fiction day, jawbreakers

Happy Birthday Shakespeare.

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: It’s Shakespeare’s birthday. World Book Day. There’s all sorts going on. The Natio … more →

Tags: Events, World Book Night, World Book Day, Shakespeare

99 Reasons Why you should read this.

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: Caroline Smailes‘ new novel, 99 Reasons Why, has been creating quite a stir in the weeks build … more →

Tags: eBooks, Caroline Smailes, ‘99 Reasons Why

Better Living through Bookshelves

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: This is great: By Grant Snider (via Bookshelf) … more →

Tags: Fiction, Photoblogs, grant snider, Bookshelf, bookshelves

Pictures worth a thousand words2 comments

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: The week I was hoping would be a writing bonanza has already taken a turn for the worse with a nasty … more →

Tags: Fiction, Photoblogs

The Composites

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: The Composites is a brilliant new tumblr that features ‘images created using law enforcement c … more →

Tags: Photoblogs, The Composites, Characters

Wilco Spinach1 comment

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: Been a little quiet here, due in part to my being busy working on a short story for this, research f … more →

Tags: Music, videos, wilco, Popeye

Living Room Stories - Review2 comments

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: Living Room Songs is a collection of pieces recorded by Ólafur Arnalds which, some of you may recall … more →

Tags: Books, Short Fiction, flash fiction, Reviews, Andy Harrod, Living Room Stories

Why Do I Love Books?4 comments

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: Because they do this to my head: Photograph by Mladen Penev. More amazing images displaying the powe … more →

Tags: Photoblogs, Mladen Penev

To MA or not to MA?21 comments

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: As someone who embarked on the first year of an MA in Creative Writing with Manchester Metropolitan … more →

Tags: Writing #2, writing, M&A, writing courses

A pep talk for all those not doing Nano this year.

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: It will come as no surprise that the theme for this month’s Write Anything columns is NaNoWriM … more →

Tags: NaNoWriMo, Write anything

Something Stunning

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: This is just stunning. Really. Stunning. Just watched it with my eighteen month old daughter, both o … more →

Tags: videos, Dustin Farrell, Landscapes, Timelapse

Do it now.4 comments

Dan Powell wrote 1 year ago: Tripped over this piece of writing advice via a recommendation from the ever helpful Nik Perring. Fo … more →

Tags: Writing #2, the writing life, writing, writing process


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