Ramble on Writing, No II TSS Publishing·January 31, 2021Reading Time: 3 minutes Today the Observer published ‘Introducing our 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021’ and drew...
Ramble on Writing, No. I TSS Publishing·January 26, 2021Reading Time: 4 minutes By Rupert Dastur I’m currently listening to a biography of Leonardo Da Vinci by...
Writing Short Stories: Advice for Kids, Beginnings (Part I) TSS Publishing·April 14, 2020Reading Time: 2 minutes Imagine this: It’s a late Tuesday evening and you’ve said goodnight to everyone. You’ve...
20+ Recommended Writing Guides TSS Publishing·January 29, 2020Reading Time: < 1 minute Earlier today I put out a call on Twitter asking for some recommendations...
Hemingway and Parataxis, by Peter Jordan TSS Publishing·January 23, 2020Reading Time: 6 minutes When the 22-year-old Ernest Hemingway relocated to Paris in 1921 some of the century’s...
Crafting Short Stories: A Good Opening Sentence, by Peter Jordan TSS Publishing·September 20, 2019Reading Time: 7 minutes Essay by Peter Jordan The opening sentence is crucial in a short story, yet...
Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2018-2019 TSS Publishing·September 1, 2019Reading Time: 2 minutes TSS Publishing is proud to present our list of the very best fifty British...
Doris Lessing: Behind the Door of Room Nineteen, by Kate Jones TSS Publishing·July 30, 2019Reading Time: 8 minutes I came to Doris Lessing’s story ‘To Room Nineteen’ several years after reading her...
See you Jimmy! Further Considerations of Hemingway’s ‘Up in Michigan’ by Mike Smith TSS Publishing·July 28, 2019Reading Time: 8 minutes Peter Jordan’s essay on ‘priming’ in this early Hemingway story sent me scurrying to...