I really should have taken a selfie. Me with David Hare and Nicholas Hytner. Damn my reticence. And the previous evening, me with David Glass. I was bold enough to ask Hare and Hytner to read my play, which would take them, well, a quick cup of coffee through the first scene. A selfie takes what? One fiftieth of a second? They must get asked to read plays by wannabes like myself at every event and book signing they do, so I expected what I got. David explained that having rea

Of all the writing workshops I’ve had the chance to attend, Beth Miller’s “Writing Sizzling Sex Scenes” was surely the most tempting. I wanted to be late, just so I could say that I’d been doing some research. In fact I was trawling my memory bank. I had to go way back, because at my age the short term memory suffers. I think I’ve had lots of sex recently – I hope I have – but I can’t actually remember it. Beth ran the workshop at the recent Hastings Literary Festival. She to