Old manuscript pages by candlelight

Journal

Notes from the Story Desk

Fragments, drafts and reflections from the worlds in development.

Writing NotesWelsh Novel NotesMyth & MemoryFolkloreCharacter StudiesBehind the Story Worlds
01
Myth & Memory

Why the Past Refuses to Stay Buried

On inheritance, silence and the way unfinished stories pass through bloodlines.

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02
Welsh Novel Notes

The Cwm as Memory

How a valley becomes a vessel — and why landscape, in this novel, is also testimony.

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03
Folklore

Writing the Wronged Woman Without Reducing Her

Notes on Churel: how to keep terror without losing the human at its centre.

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04
Myth & Memory

Sacred Sound and the Witness Narrator

On the voice of The Damaru Manuscript — what it means to be remembered by a story.

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05
Writing Notes

Love, Inheritance and Silence

The three structural forces every novel in this constellation circles back to.

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