I chose the title for this Blog because in one way or another I have always been slightly at variance with the world around me and happy to be so. There is a quote by Thoreau which says:
“If a man is out of step with his companions, maybe he is marching to the beat of a different drum.”
That’s me.
My intention is to update this Blog regularly with various random off-beat thoughts about the process of writing, pieces of writing that have inspired me, the origin of some of my books and so on.
It’s ironical that, although I have had a long and interesting career in playwriting, radio and television production, audio book publishing and now novel writing, the main things people remember are that I wrote for ‘The Archers’ (Radio 4) and ‘Rainbow’ (ITV). Still I guess that’s better than being completely forgotten.
If you have any comments on the site or the Blog please let me know. Learning never stops.
Michael