Month: August 2020
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Måndag
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an eminent domain
An old bit of advice from the days when I was still working seriously on trying to get short fiction published went along the lines of: submit your work to the venues you read most regularly. (I got some fairly prestigious rejections, obvs.) I’ve broadly kept to that dictum with my writings, fictional or otherwise,…
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Skin in the game
Some weeks, the wall wins.
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Light ’em up
Everything — every argument, every critique, every shot across the bow — should end up in a positive project. If it doesn’t, you’re just shooting blanks. Matt Colquhoun https://xenogothic.com/2020/08/28/nihilism-without-negativity-in-2020/ Yes, this.
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Semester
Semester is the Swedish word for holiday, which is cause for a little cognitive dissonance for a newly-arrived anglophone academic: what I think of as “the new semester” is just starting, but for locals, “semester” is just ending, and the new academic “cycle” is beginning. I recall reading something not too long ago in which…