Articles Tagged with writing

Unimportant history

Obscure biography

A book about someone we’d never heard of turns out to be unexpectedly interesting.

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Getting the stars right

Does it matter?

We wonder how careful a fiction author really needs to be.

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Responsibility

The passive voice

Sometimes it’s hard to work out who is responsible.  It’s only going to get harder.

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Long reads

An unfair advantage

How many people read a thousand-page book?

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Distant Shakespeare

Experiencing language change

We know it happens, but didn’t think it we’d see it in action.

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Clutter

The state of your desk

How clear should your desk, office or home be?

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Difficult meters

On poetry

Can anyone write a poem?

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The last novel

Favorite authors

When do you finish, if there’s no prospect of more?

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Blast from the past

History and pre-history

We ponder a very old story, and something that could have been an old story.

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Historical fictions

The history of history

Sometimes stories take on a history of their own.

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