One of the hazards of journalism is being named in other people’s stories especially when they’re nonsense and you had nothing to do with them. This is exacerbated when you’ve argued long and hard against publishing the story. But certain subject areas, where governments will ‘neither confirm nor deny’ offer free reign to the fantasist…
Oct
08
The Internet is Dangerous for New Writers
New writers desperate to be published are easily diverted by social media and fee-charging editors and ‘publishers’, when they should be working hard in artistic isolation, learning about themselves and their craft.