As long as I can remember, I have written. I’ve kept a personal diary since I was 14; in my professional career, I have written countless papers, reports, articles and speeches; in the mid 1980s I authored a full-scale book which was published in both the UK and the then Czechoslovakia; I’ve had a web site for 10 years and blogged daily almost as long. But all this is non-fiction and I’ve long had a yearning to try my hand at some fiction.
\nFrom this weekend, most of my work goes into a hiatus, since the bodies on which I sit do not meet in August, so I have a very light month or so ahead of me. I’ve decided to use the time to attempt to become a short story writer and I’ve set myself the target of crafting five short stories in the course of the summer.
\nI will, of course, publish them on my web site and invite you to read them. Please be kind …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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