1. Why do you blog?
My main blog is Never Neutral but I have several others. It’s a commonplace, but I blog because I have a need to communicate. I have always connected writing and publishing. As a teenager I edited a couple of fanzines, which I sold/swapped mainly by (snail) mail. Me and my brother [...]



1. Why do you blog?
As a form of semi-anonymous expression. For me, blogging is a little like writing very short stories that I don’t have to edit or worry about submitting. The rejection factor is nil; if the writing strikes a chord, people respond, but usually no one writes just to be negative. There’s a [...]



1. Why do you blog?
I blog to keep track of what catches my eye from moment to moment, day to day. Blogging forces me to think about my gut reactions and put them into words, indirectly helping my fiction and poetry.
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. [...]






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