Yesterday I spent the afternoon in Bristol, attending a creative writing course. Specifically it was a (free) course on writing “fiction inspired by science”, run by Tania Hershman who has the cool job of being the Writer in Residence at the Bristol University Science Faculty. It was an interesting afternoon, at which I learned a lot about how to run a creative writing course. My fiction is still unutterably crap and derivative — no one can fix that in 2.5 hours — but at least I now have some ideas for exercises to make it better.

Those of you who are in Bristol might like to attend the open mic reading session that Tania and some of the class attendees will be having next Tuesday. Details on the BristolCon website.

Also, now I want to read this book.