Blood on the Motorway

I’m not going to do that thing that I and so many other bloggers do after a protracted absence. You know that nobody has noticed in all probability, because you yourself rarely notice when a blogger you read has disappeared for a little while. You only notice when their name pops up again and you [...]

My shiny new laptop has remained to me a very shiny and lovely thing since I first bought it some months back. Having written a whole NaNoWriMo novel on a tiny netbook with accompanying tiny keyboard some months earlier it has been a delight to be tip-tapping away on something not so reminiscent of a [...]

When I first joined the creative writing course I took last year, one of the first things our lecturer said was that good writers are good readers. A simple and clearly correct thought certainly, but one which I confess I have sometimes failed to live up to. As a rule the only time I spend [...]

Two weeks into this foul year of our lord Two Oh One Two and I’ve not killed nearly enough people. Characters, I mean. I haven’t killed any people in real life. Honest to blog. I have killed one character, except I didn’t actually get to do that. I had another character discover the body, so [...]

Yes, before you get started it does seem rather odd to be doing a ‘wistful looking back piece’ on a website that is younger even than my son, who has only just learnt to grip things in his hand and spends his days dribbling and looking adorable. But hey, ‘tis the season and all that. [...]

Well hello there. So this is the first post here at Blood on the Motorway. You must be wondering what this is all about, or at least I imagine you are at least vaguely curious, given that you’ve gone to all the trouble to click on the link and that. The best way to explain [...]