On a recent outing with a family member, running my fingers across the blue steel of the Tower Bridge, we stopped. And looking out towards Southwark, he pointed at a row of Victorian warehouses turned luxury flats. In between the long windows and black balconies, before one set of extortionate accommodation turned into another was a dark street...
I've found another way to avoid keeping up with my NaNo targets this month; writing about writing. For those of you who aren't aware, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an annual challenge in which writers from all around the world attempt to write 50,000 in a month. And that month is November. It's an average of 1667 words a day, and it's...
I am a self-confessed horror film junkie. I've seen hundreds of horror films; the good, the bad, the ugly, and rewatched my favourites so many times that I don't think I could ever face them again. Naturally, this means October is my month. It's the time of creative costumes, bucket-loads of candy and constant reruns of classic 90s slasher movies...
300 years ago, novels were a 'fickle' hobby written by, and for women. Popular Gothic novels were made fun of by pretty much everyone; from politicians to Jane Austen, who explored the genre satirically in the timelessly witty 'Northanger Abbey', even incorporating this gender divide into one of the novel's antagonists, John Thorpe, who remarks...
