BarryHutchison

School Visit

Today I visited Wexford Educate Together school, where I had a grand old time with the boys and girl (singular) of First and Second Class.  I was reading extracts from my latest manuscript, answering questions and generally having a bit of a chat, in preparation for a series of story-writing sessions I’ll be running with [...]

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It’s only THEORETICALLY racist …

Found this on the Telegraph.co.uk website. In an episode that could potentially strain relations between Warsaw and Washington, Radek Sikorski, an Oxford-educated politician who has lived in the US, was reported to have made the jibe by an opposition politician, Ryszard Czarnecki. Writing in his blog, Mr Czarnecki, an MEP, quoted the foreign minister as [...]

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The eyes have it

I’ve started to get the coloured pages in for my comic, GANGRENE, and they’re looking fab.  I won’t show them off yet – not until they’re all lettered up – but the eyes above form the last panel on page one. Kudos to all the artists involved in the project – Neil Chenier (pencils), Travis [...]

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Boaby and Winston and Me

Today I finished up a short story for possible inclusion in an anthology, due to be published in 2010.  Its called BOABY AND WINSTON AND ME, and is set in an unnamed town somewhere in the Scottish Central Belt. For the very first time in my life, I have written something – albeit only 3,500 [...]

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Kentucky Fried Fairy – Part 2

Back in March this year, I posted the first two chapters of the “practice” book I wrote – Kentucky Fried Fairy.  I remain convinced there’s a masterpiece hidden away in the manuscript somewhere, but I don’t have the time to dig it out. Instead, I’ve decided to post the rest of the book, bit by [...]

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The X-Factor

Much as it fills me with self-loathing to admit it, I’m completely addicted to The X-Factor this year, despite the fact none of them are in reality all that good.  I mean, let’s face it, none of them are Leona Lewis, are they?  I doubt we’ll ever see her like again on the show. Except [...]

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A good old chinwag

After Kyle had finished school today, we took him round to visit the house of two of his school friends (who are brother and sister, hence them living in the same house).  We’d planned spending an hour or two there , before heading back home. Seven hours later, having discussed everything from organised religion (bad) [...]

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Aaaargh!

Having a complete head-wrecker of a day for various reasons, so no big blog post here tonight, folks.  Haven’t even looked at the chick-lit trash book I bought from the charity shop yet.  Nor can I remember the name of it at present, or the author.  I believe it’s about a 40-something woman with a [...]

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Fast, but not furious

Sometimes this writing lark is easy.  You can come up with an idea, or reach a certain point in a story, and the words just flow out onto the page.  Kind of like Tippex, but with precisely the opposite effect. That’s what happened with my new manuscript, which we’ll call NotLT for not-giving-the-whole-story-away-by-revealing-the-title reasons. Essentially, [...]

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Sorry everyone, sorry!

I didn’t make it to a charity shop today to buy a book, as per yesterday’s blog post.  I did, however, make some hefty progress on the problematic book two of my series, so I’m happy enough regardless, and stuff the rest of you. Tomorrow I will go and buy my non-familiar-genre, second-hand novel.  Tonight, [...]

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