Category: Writing
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An open reply to a self-published author
Email in my inbox this morning; anonymised and dissected for reply here, because if this is indicative of what’s going on out in the ebook trenches, then we’re gonna need more mustard gas. Hey, Paul Raven! Hey. So what kinds of promotional activities are legal, moral & ethical for the EBook Newbie like myself? I’m asking,…
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Reflections
It’s nearly three weeks since I submitted my dissertation and effectively finished my Masters. This is the seventh attempt I’ve made to write about what that means. I suspect it won’t be the last, though this one is actually going to make it past the draft stage; I realise I’m hesitating, and I want to…
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Amphetamine Fugue #3
His history be the hallowe’en of her. “T is down, pumpkin.” Pumpkin scene flickers, checked to his wobbly cardboard killing-jar Oxfam? Every Oxfam? T spins, unfocused, shitty again. Pavement. It’s a heard object, really arch, dears — sucking a brickwork road, we’re the end of pavement. And air in the world harrassed his public clinic,…
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Notes from Babylondon
Everyone was so pleased when I announced completion of my first draft that their responses have totally crashed Twitter, apparently. Ahem. I’m no expert, but that’s looking like pretty bad news. It didn’t take long for spectacular un-graceful failure states like this to disappear behind web2.0’s equivalent of the hold music, our old friend Fail-whale.…