by Sarah Thomas | Sep 7, 2022 | Creativity, Uncategorized, Writing and Storytelling
Around 100 years before we had met the serial killer, Dexter, the French novelist Emile Zola gave us Jacques Lantier. Jacques dreams of blood and killing, but unlike Dexter, his psyche is grounded in something more ancient than a traumatic childhood...
by Sarah Thomas | May 19, 2022 | Storytelling, Writing and Storytelling
Familiarity with Shakespeare’s leading players is pretty universal. Everyone has heard of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet whether or not they have read or engaged with the plays. But within his stories resides a rich and complex web of B-characters that keep the plays...
by Sarah Thomas | May 19, 2022 | Storytelling, Writing and Storytelling
It’s 1964, and the Cold War is in mid-flight. General Walter Campbell Sweeney Jnr, head of the US Tactical Air Command, has heard an alarming rumour. A new theory by one Mad Major John Boyd is making a joke out of the recently developed fleet. His theory claims that...
by Sarah Thomas | May 19, 2022 | Storytelling, Writing and Storytelling
In April, with air and car travel brought to a standstill because of the virus, the earth took a moment to breathe. The sky was a vivid blue, uninterrupted by the usual steady stream of planes. No vapor trails or noises and the smell of the flowers coming into bloom....
by Sarah Thomas | Apr 17, 2022 | Writing and Storytelling
In late 2016 I reached a high point in my eBay selling career, or a low point, depending on your outlook. I was running out of my writer’s existence savings and putting off an inevitable return to some kind of office-bound employment. I’d sold my old...
by Sarah Thomas | Apr 16, 2022 | Homepage, Writing and Storytelling
In the 18th Century, Scotland was a land without a leader. James VI of Scotland had become James I of England. The country was Crippled by debt and blighted by poverty. Scotland was a country without a parliament. Yet out of this small country emerged a ferocious...
