Browsing Archive: August, 2026

Fact or Fiction?

Posted by K. S. Dearsley on Monday, August 17, 2026, In : Inspiration 

When I wrote a few blogs ago about a piece of writing that did not seem to fit anywhere, one category I had not considered was creative non-fiction. It was only when a member of Get the Word Out suggested that I did not need to turn it into a poem or use it as the basis of a story, and that it was complete as it was, that I realised I had produced a piece of creative non-fiction. In fact, if someone had asked me to define the category before, I would have struggled.

Although I mostly write fi...


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The Play's the Thing

Posted by K. S. Dearsley on Monday, August 10, 2026, In : Reviews 

Is it unreasonable to expect a live performance of a play to follow the script exactly? Surely, only robots can be word perfect every time, and does it really matter if Portia says 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd/It droppeth like the gentle rain of heaven/Upon the place beneath' (William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Act Four Scene One), instead of … 'it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven…'. Shakespeare's works are so famous that there would be bound to be someone in the a...


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My writing career began as a freelance feature writer for the local press, businesses and organisations. Now a prize-winning playwright and short story writer, my work has appeared in numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic. I write as K. S. Dearsley because it saves having to keep repeating my forename, and specialise in fantasy and other speculative genres.

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