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...
Of abundant overflow
What causes creativity to spring forth? I like Seamus Heaney's idea that it is not so much reactive as a...
Death-haunted aubade
This triologism emerges from Seamus Heaney's imagining how Philip Larkin would have written The Divine Comedy, triggered by his reading...
All the details of the tree
A fine injunction to a writer, first to face truth and then to give unhidden all the details. Neither is...
What it takes to be an author
In my naivety, I thought you just had to write and publish a book to be an author, but apparently...
Heroic journals
All laud to Labaume, going to such heroic lengths to write his journal. I will have to introduce this makeshift...
Missing homework
Here Steinbeck suffers a bout of exam nerves before being bombarded with highly intellectual questions from his counterparts in the...
Futility worth reading about
I like the idea that something about futility is written so splendidly that it’s worth reading before you give up...
Shaping words and forming letters
It’s unusual to read such a detailed comment on the act of writing by hand. But once you have the...
When did you begin?
Recently I read an old penny-paperback of The Grapes of Wrath. Â I was about three-quarters of the way through when...
How hard one must work … and how!
In recent weeks, while typing up scores of quotations from Thoreau on the nature of writing, I started reading some...
Dancing light, rippling reflections
Having occasionally lain in bed practically hypnotised by the dappling and dancing of light bouncing from water up to ceiling,...
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