Journal Entries
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A Scotland-wide divide becomes apparent in the chipper. Read more
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writing has to be honest, and that genuine emotion has to come from the writer Read more
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It wasn’t just the Scots in which Irvine Welsh delivered Trainspotting and subsequent novels, it was the colloquial mannerisms, the vernacular of a demographic in a certain time and place. Read more
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I can’t think of a more obvious way to be inspired to write than to love reading. Even if you have a story to tell, you must still need inspiration of how to tell that story? My mother encouraged me to read, and read I did. I love to read, I read every day and Read more
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As a child I read at the kitchen table with my fingers in my ears and held the book open with my elbows. I read Roald Dahl and Agaton Sax and The Hardy Boys. I found a friend in Charlie Bucket and Danny, The Champion of the World. I found suspense and excitement with Agaton Read more
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When I was young, fiction was about escapism. To be lost in a book that was exciting and filled with adventure and populated with larger than life heroes helped me to forget about poverty and bullying. While reading fiction I was carried away on voyages; my imagination would be fired and I would be lost Read more
Iain Mac Lachlainn 