Wonderful recent story covering the perils of talking about literature. This time we have an author saying genre literature is rubbish with two problems. First, the utterer is a genre writer and so she’s urinated on her own chips and second, she received a barrage of invective from genre writers noting their work wasn’t all …
Wonderful piece of advice available from The Guardian – this time about the ordinary art of writing. The writer walks us through various tips and techniques for using writing in ordinary circumstances – like producing a letter of complaint. As a writer naturally I’m interested in any article along those lines. I came for the …
Another fine article reminding us all that language has rules and we should follow them. This time, the alert is offered up by The Guardian. The first thing to say is that there is an irony for the broadsheet, whose nickname has been The Grauniad due to its propensity for typographic errors, to be dispensing …
This week The Guardian set me thinking about why the dead child is such a common trope. Any article with a still photo from Don’t Look Now is bound to grab my attention but the haunting effects of loss is bound to grab me too. I believe there is an intrinsic pre-programming within us to …
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