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Novel update
Peyrepertuse This is part of the ruined Cathar stronghold of Peyrepertuse, the most dramatic of the hilltop castles we visited in the Languedoc in 1998. This is the view from the higher fortifications...
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Finished
That’s the first draft of the novel finished, printed out, proof-read, and now I’ve started a critical read. I’m more than halfway through the critical read, and I’ve already rewritten several...
View ArticleTelling Stories
What I learned about myself, in the period between 2016 and now, is that I love to tell stories. I love making up characters, settings and situations, the more three-dimensional and true-to-life (as I...
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Storm Arwen
The storm (Force 11 here) which hit us on the 26th and 27th of November was one of the most destructive I can remember, and I can remember the big one of January 1968, known as Hurricane Low Q. Wind...
View ArticleThe novel; an update in January 2022
When I finished my novel, The Way We Say Yes, in October last year I had a number of offers to read it from kind friends, but I decided against that. I wanted a totally objective assessment from a...
View ArticlePublications
Rapidly approaching 80 as I am, I thought I’d have a go at assembling a personal bibliography. I’ve had lots of articles on librarianship and information science published in professional journals,...
View ArticlePublications, Parts 2 and 3
Colin Will Bibliography II Poems in printed magazines Agniewska’s DowryAmbitBlack Light Engine RoomBotanical Society of Scotland NewsBroadsideCencrastusClimberDreyEdinburgh GeologistEnvoiFar Off...
View ArticleA new blog direction
I discovered a Cretan diary from 2018 in an old notebook, and later on in the same year some notes on our visit to Mull, Iona, Staffa and the Treshnish Islands.So I’ve decided, once I get these two...
View ArticleSeven tattoo poems
With thanks to Kerry Gentle and Anna Maxwell The idea behind these poems was inspired by reading Helen Mort’s book – The Illustrated Woman. I wanted to write about what my tattoos mean to me, and what...
View ArticleCalifornia 2023. One: Basin and Range
Northern California is a textbook example of Basin and Range topography, which I remembered from my geology studies with the Open University. A series of linear north-south mountain ranges, sloping...
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