Deadlines and proposals
With Palestine’s application for statehood to be heard by the UN on 24th September, we are working great guns to […]
Sneaky peek
A teeny glimpse into the world I’m researching and learning about: Palestine’s Sesame Street
Plotting a book
A combined mission this week: to gather ideas for Daoud’s book and to work out how to plot both books. […]
Gathering the stories
Last evening I had a fabulous Skype-chat with Daoud, which focused me and was remarkably revealing at the same time. […]
Taking Sesame Street to Palestine
Getting round to researching and working on Daoud Kuttab’s book has been a long time coming while teaching my first […]
The research begins
I have very clear memories of being a secondary and university student and being told that I needed to work […]
First story published
Piles of marking = woeful lack of time to blog. I’m sure you’ll cope 🙂 Summer is just round the […]
Accepted :)
Over the years I’ve had commissions to write some pretty interesting stuff, and each week I write for a number […]
Creative non-fiction
This week, my days are filled with stories of Palestine and Sesame Street’s arrival there. I’ve read a fair amount […]
Clauses
Let’s go reeeaaalllly slowly. First off: all (proper!) sentences need at least one clause. What on earth is a clause? […]