What we did on our holidays by Peter Leyland
What we did on our holidays What do marketing-analysts, postgraduate history scholars, Information Technology librarians, and retired teachers have in common? Answer – they don’t spend their summer holidays relaxing on a beach on the Costa Brava but go on a creative writing course in a remote and rainswept cottage at Moniack Mhor in Scotland. There they meet other writers, learn to cook for 17 people, stay up until three o’clock in the morning talking, and fall in love, with writing of course. The course I did was run by Colette Paul and Nick Brooks, two writers with very different styles. Nick wrote novels while Collette was a writer of short stories. They are both Scottish, graduates of Glasgow University, and good friends. On the first evening both tutors read aloud from...