Aquila – Can Silvanus Escape That God?
Silvanus is angry. Perplexed. Afraid.
Angry that his dad made him undertake this precarious trek. Perplexed about the future. Afraid of the fearful stone god, Aquila the Avenger, who haunts him wherever he goes.
His dream? Escape his island prison and discover the wide world. Read more.
Posts about Aquila
Re-Vision
It’s one thing to say I have completed the first draft of Aquila – all 34½ chapters – but quite another to…
Show or tell?
Some gleanings from from the Zürich Writers’ Workshop, 13.-14.4.2013 I was in the Storytelling Fundamentals stream with instructor Sam North, who teaches Creative…
Published: Aquila!
Aquila – Can Silvanus Escape That God? is a work of historical fiction, set on the Isle of Elba in the 6th century.
Virna’s attempted rape – a reading
I’ve tried something new – a reading from my WIP, in which the runaway slave girl Virna tells Silvanus how…
Why is Cerbonius shown with geese?
Cerbonius was a colourful character. I could describe him as a priest, a refugee, a hermit, a bishop, a bear-tamer,…
Writers’ Workshop Zürich
On 29 October 2012 I attended the Boot Camp of the Writers’ Workshop in the Volkshaus Zürich – a full day’s dose of…