Column Chris McQueer: Time to write new stories and have new adventures
I SEE a lot of writing advice flying around online.
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Glasgow writer and spoken art performer. With extensive use of the Scots language, his writings are dark comedy and surreal humour. He is best known for his two published collections of short stories Hings and HWFG.
Glasgow writer and spoken art performer. With extensive use of the Scots language, his writings are dark comedy and surreal humour. He is best known for his two published collections of short stories Hings and HWFG.
I SEE a lot of writing advice flying around online.
I’VE spoken a few times in this column about how I’ve not been feeling quite myself.
ON Christmas Day, after opening a load of presents befitting the spoiled little boy I am, my girlfriend handed me one last one saying “this is just a wee daft thing”.
CHRISTMAS is upon us once again.
WITH Christmas almost upon us, I have been feeling very amused by a new tradition that has sprung up, seemingly out of nowhere, in the last few years – Elf on the Shelf.
I AWOKE the other morning to see Billy Connolly was trending on Twitter.
I am writing this as the last light of my twenties begins to fade away. On Friday morning, just after 7am, I will officially become a thirty-year-old man.
I saw someone on Twitter ask a question during the week which was ‘What were some things people had that marked them out as rich/posh to you when you were younger?’
WITH COP26 in full swing, it’s been hard for me not to think about climate change a lot recently.
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