Writing Archive
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
For most of my writing life, I've had a tiny audience - often consisting of only one person.
First at school then at university, my work was only read by a teacher or tutor. During those years, I also wrote countless pieces that were only ever read by myself.
The size of ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Philip Pullman tells a nice story about how he invented dæmons for use in His Dark Materials:
"... it just emerged as I was trying to begin the story. I suddenly realised that Lyra had a dæmon, and it all grew out of that."
('The Man Behind the Magic: An Interview with ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
My wife and I share a conflict of opinion about Doctor Who.
She doesn't like it, because in every episode the monsters nearly kill the humans but they get away in the end.
I like it, because in spite of that it tells me a believable story about a lonely man.
Which of ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
You say “goodbye,” and I say “hello”. We oppose each other, and therefore - just like a famous equation - we are equal. We stare into each other’s eyes, we reflect each other, each containing the other’s difference.
You say “goodbye,” and I say “hello”: we complete each other’s sentences, figuratively ...
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
That the Internet offers potentially every individual with a computer the opportunity to self-publish is at once something wonderful and terrible. As a grammar pedant, it pains me to see people develop online authority as writers despite not knowing the difference between “it’s” and “its”. In traditional publishing, points of ...
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