Category: Writing
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17JAN23 / accessions
You know how it is: you go to town to buy a webcam (because the one in your Thinkpad has, in some impossible-to-diagnose manner, gone for a burton) and the store with the webcam just happens to be two doors down from the local sf/f bookstore and … ah, well. The Itäranta because, um, I…
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Gravity’s rainbow for Gonzo: High White Notes by David S Wills
Wills’s thesis here is not at all controversial: he seeks not to challenge the accepted wisdom re: Hunter S Thompson as a once groundbreaking writer who became trapped in his own (deliberately constructed) literary persona, but rather to evidence that argument thoroughly by reference to Thompson’s published work, as well as to secondary sources, and…
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writing about writing about writing
A good grab-bag of writerly tips and tricks here from Irina Dumitrescu, mainly focussed on… well, not productivity, exactly (because that’s a framing that I am trying to avoid using these days, for Reasons) but what we might call instead the Getting-Something-Done Problem. Many of them are commonplaces of online writerly discourse, but some are…
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that was the year that was
Navel-gazey reflective end-of-year stuff; feel free to skip! The Practice A(nother) year in notebooks… the thicker one is a kind of catch-all/commonplace book, and the two thin ones topmost are specifically work-focussed, but the rest are morning pages only, the dedicated medium of the Practice, of which this has been the fifth full year. The…
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the true name of the sun
Comfort-reading A Wizard of Earthsea. Of all the books I read in my childhood, only Le Guin’s have been so reliably enriched by time, experience and re-reading. She was a worker of the same true magic she wrote of.