Writingidol

Writingidol Writing Idol makes fiction exploring masculinity, identity and the shifting borderline between story-telling and memory. We call it serious comedy...

Writing Idol is the page of Mark Woodward - writer, runner and occasional saxophone-player. The aim of Writing Idol is not just to promote my own work, but the work of other self-published writers of good-quality fiction.

Someone is telling MM's story. Could there be a summer of love?
24/07/2026

Someone is telling MM's story. Could there be a summer of love?

As they stood by the bushes in the corner, music floated over their heads from a tall house overlooking the swings. The ...
22/07/2026

As they stood by the bushes in the corner, music floated over their heads from a tall house overlooking the swings. The window jutting out from the roof was overflowing with yellow light, and a figure sat on the windowsill, his long legs dangling over the edge. A smoky voice drifted over his shoulder, pouring a love song into the night, soft and breathy, like a song in a dream.

Our first experiment is unfinished - a manuscript, an old notebook and the story of how they were discovered. This is an...
15/07/2026

Our first experiment is unfinished - a manuscript, an old notebook and the story of how they were discovered. This is an entry from the notebook, in which the author records his reaction when his book was rejected. To read more, check out itsneverfinished.substack.com...

unfinished is a manuscript, an old notebook and the story of how they were discovered. If you like serious comedy, and c...
13/07/2026

unfinished is a manuscript, an old notebook and the story of how they were discovered. If you like serious comedy, and can stomach a pile of mouse bodies, you might find it interesting...


Here's one of the entries from the notebook - read more at itsneverfinished.substack.com:

Our first experiment is unfinished - a manuscript, an old notebook and the story of how they were discovered. If you lik...
10/07/2026

Our first experiment is unfinished - a manuscript, an old notebook and the story of how they were discovered. If you like serious comedy, and can stomach a pile of mouse bodies, you might find it interesting. Click the link to find out more.
https://itsneverfinished.substack.com/

Writing Idol is a small, genre-fluid writing project based in the UK. We aim not just to create new work, but to experim...
09/07/2026

Writing Idol is a small, genre-fluid writing project based in the UK. We aim not just to create new work, but to experiment with novel ways of bringing readers and writers together. Our first experiment is unfinished – an old manuscript, a notebook and the story of their discovery. Click the link to visit the unfinished Substack and find out how the story begins.
https://itsneverfinished.substack.com/
If you like serious comedy, and can stomach a pile of mouse bodies, you might find it interesting…

We also publish shorter pieces - short stories, song lyrics, prose-poems and fragments from longer work - in a variety of genres and formats. Some of them will be posted here, but most of them are published on the writingidol Substack.
https://writingidol.substack.com/
Access to some pieces may be restricted to subscribers only, but nothing we publish on Substack will ever sit behind a paywall. We hope you find something here to enjoy.

From the notebook...
29/06/2026

From the notebook...

From the notebook - entry 2
24/06/2026

From the notebook - entry 2

From the notebook - entry 1
22/06/2026

From the notebook - entry 1

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