Category: Writing
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building up against the left wall
Some notes on an interview with hyperproductive sff author Adrian Tchaikovsky on his writing practice, with plenty of good stuff about worldbuilding.
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The Good Soldier
Some thoughts on the novel by Ford Madox Ford.
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whatever circuits of vanity underlie the original impulse
I’d been planning to stop doing criticism, but it was essentially a triage decision: drop the writing that seems to be achieving the least, you know.
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on discernment
The really blunt way to put this would be to say that a bit of cultural elitism might not be a bad thing right now.
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you couldn’t feel anything, and you didn’t want to either
Last week in particular, body and mind were crying out for proper rest, but the freelance life doesn’t work that way.