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The Joy Of Research Rabbit Holes

Joy Wright 21 May 2026

Research is vital for writers. Yes we can write from experience, from imagination and from other examples. However nothing is as compelling as good solid research. Diana Gabaldon is exemplary…

Hay Fever

Joy Wright 17 May 2026

The Hay Festival is coming, which means a small town in Wales is about to fill with writers, readers, thinkers, wanderers carrying tote bags and delusional folk pretending they are…

How Government and Laundry Murder Creativity

Joy Wright 14 May 2026

I have voice notes on my phone, scraps of paper and receipts I’ve dug out of my bag to write on, single pages in notebooks, random sentences on envelopes and…

Bookshops Are Dangerous Places

Joy Wright 9 May 2026

People talk about IKEA and the clear intention to have you lost in the store until you relent and buy things. It works from the viewpoint of scent, visual appeal,…

Stationery Addict

Joy Wright 29 April 2026

Hi, I’m Joy and I’m a stationery addict. I’ve been that way since I was about seven. My Nannan used to take me into town and would almost always buy…

Not Longlisted

Joy Wright 21 April 2026

I heard back from the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. I’m not longlisted. Not shortlisted either of course, not hovering near anything, not in a “we really liked it but…” category…

Project Hail Mary film review

Joy Wright 18 April 2026

This is a newer form of SF which seems to be emerging entirely under the pen of Andy Weir, who wrote the orginal novel. SF moves between trends, hard, inaccessible,…

Tori Amos – In Times Of Dragons Tour

Joy Wright 11 April 2026

I knew the tickets were near if not entirely sold out and I wasn’t surprised. Tori Amos made a significant space for herself in the charts years ago and has…

Whoops I did it again. Winning a writing competition.

Joy Wright 1 April 2026

Apparently I’ve done it againI’ve won one of Jodi Taylor’s writing competitions. I don’t really have anything useful in terms of stats or explanation and being a writer I’m craving…

Boudicca, a leaf blower and a writing competition

Joy Wright 23 March 2026

I entered another Jodi Taylor writing competition recently which I’ve already written about, which is either a sign of creative enthusiasm or a complete inability to leave well alone. I’d…

Writing Dracula: Nocturne

Joy Wright 21 March 2026

I have a friend, Dorothy, who recently described my current shenanigans as sounding like; two best friends playing out together, one says “I’ll be a cowboy” and the other says…

Remarkably Bright Creatures (That Octopus Book) – Shelby Van Pelt, Audiobook Review

Joy Wright 17 March 2026

What stood out about other people talking about this book, before I paid any attention to it, was the amount of people who said “I will never eat octopus again”.…