Sunday, October 31, 2010

Drip-fed fiction – this November’s experiment

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In November 2008 I wrote a self-contained story in 100 words every day for thirty days and posted them on my blog. You can read those storie...

October Reading in Review

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Discussed already this month: A Room with a View – E.M. Forster (novel, audiobook) Aiding and Abetting – Muriel Spark (novel) The Day...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Day Hemingway Died and other stories

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Last October was ‘Owen Marshall Month’ on this blog. I argued why it was more satisfying to read Marshall’s stories in their natural habitat...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Keyword Analysis - a found poem

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It's over a year since I stopped posting at my old blog, The Quest for a Million Words , but according to StatCounter it's still get...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Random Roundup (including A Man Melting's first three months)

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I got a package from Random House today summarising all the promo stuff for A Man Melting in the three months since its release. There wa...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

S(h)ame again? Working through an author's ouvre

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Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark is the worst novel I have ever finished. Thin, slap-dash, meandering... Its only redeeming feature is ...
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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Novel B Playlist #2

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Subtitle : Songs that have struck a chord while working on Novel B this past fortnight... Explanatory note : Links are to youtube. Playli...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Worksheet #40, including September Reading in Review

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I rode the Sistine Chapel bus again on Wednesday morning. Talk about diminishing marginal returns. * September Reading #3 I went to t...