We must all find our own voice; but we also need to persuade the reader to participate, to bring something of themselves to the party.  Otherwise, writing is mere show-and-tell…

Unpublished words and musings offers a window onto the way Max Adams thinks about the world: sometimes his theme seems to be ‘the beauty of sadness’; at others, it’s a piss-taking, self-mocking quirky look at humanity. Both seem to be required to maintain sanity.

A short film by the Royal Literary Fund called The Camera shows Max talking about how – and why – he looks at the world through a lens