We’re in Trouble with a capital “T”. The Bank of England has issued a report in which they predict UK Output is due to fall…
Martyn Winters: Author, Composer, Musician
We’re in Trouble with a capital “T”. The Bank of England has issued a report in which they predict UK Output is due to fall…
Paul McCartney – live at Glastonbury festival 25th June 2022 Paul McCartney has always been around. For most of you, that is an absolute. For…
As is usual with the popular press, they’ve got excitable and are busy predicting doom because of sunspot AR3038. This new sunspot which is in…
Look, I don’t believe in astrology. Everything I know tells me it’s bunkum. And science will poo-poo any similar characteristics between two people born under…
I’ve written a new #Flashfiction for Swansea Writers – “The Nexterday Pot Affair etm.” You can read it here I hope you enjoy it
As idioms go, “Let sleeping dogs lie” ranks somewhere near the top of my belief system. Everyone is familiar with this, but in case you…
A Tweet from Alison Jae got me thinking: one of the enormous problems we as writers have is practicing. Nothing improves our writing like practice,…

I read an article on the Writing Cooperative by John Kerr this week about writing Flash Fiction. I found it an enjoyable and informative read. If you’re interested in Flash Fiction, it will be worth your while to cast your eye over it. You can read it here.
Clearly, there are many ways of writing a flash fiction story, but I quite like the clarity this gives the process.
I’ve done a TLDR; below and included a template for you to use at the end.
I’ve written a 500 word flash fiction, “The Asphalt Beach”, published on London Stories. You can read it now. The Asphalt Beach
Okay – in the next 43 years, 29 will be under hard right Tory governments, we will have a pandemic that kills over five million…