S E LYNES WRITES

Sexuality is core to character, wherever they are on the sexuality or gender spectrum. Just as we need to know what clothes our character...

A writer mate, Joel Hames, messaged me this morning to tell me that Peter Sutcliffe was dead. My first response was visceral: a rolling...

I often find myself on the receiving end of this question or a variation of this question. The subtext, no matter how kindly meant,...

TOM NEEDED A thirty fifth birthday present for Mona. Clothes were out of the question – she didn’t want anything new, she said, until she...

She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown; there being no more marrying, no more having of children now, but...

The first question I ask my writing students is not why do you write but why don’t you? Why don’t you write? Their answers are variations...

I used to think that in order to write well, you had to have experienced a troubled childhood and a constant stream of failed...