Missing homework
Here Steinbeck suffers a bout of exam nerves before being bombarded with highly intellectual questions from his counterparts in the...
The secret of surprise
A pithy tip from one of the masters, succinctly conveyed in Clive James' translation. Â It's certainly given me food for...
Poetry as a boat
Another maritime metaphor in Heaney's introduction to a poem set in a sea-world. The ‘big quay’ of language and literature can...
‘Write,’ he said
A fine parting injunction to a friend you are seeing off at the train station. Julián did as he was...
Learning to write
How do you learn to write? My belief is that if fine writing comes from you, mostly it is due to...
How to hide a poem (I)
The child in me has always been curious about secret ways to communicate or protect things. When we drive, I...
Key Penmanship Indicators (KPIs)
An author whose bright writing I cheer and revere made this kind comment about WritingRedux.com. He also handed me a...
Unreel writing
There's something of fairy-tale magic in this idea of writing as a thread teased out from the writer's cupboard of...
Difficulty
Ever had that feeling? May it dissolve and pass, fast.
‘Writing was difficult; the words came as painfully as kidney...
How to write a paper
Heaney’s introduction to his translation of Beowulf praises Tolkien’s ‘epoch-making paper’, a lecture delivered in 1936 entitled ‘Beowulf: The Monsters...
Death-haunted aubade
This triologism emerges from Seamus Heaney's imagining how Philip Larkin would have written The Divine Comedy, triggered by his reading...
Of abundant overflow
What causes creativity to spring forth? I like Seamus Heaney's idea that it is not so much reactive as a...
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