Michael Finnegan – hero of our time
Every new morning is a new opportunity to do like Michael Finnegan. A pep talk (to myself) and a way of not missing another blog post.
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Every new morning is a new opportunity to do like Michael Finnegan. A pep talk (to myself) and a way of not missing another blog post.
Last weekend I attended the SWF22 – the Stockholm Writers’ Festival 2022. I’m still digesting it, so what follows here is just a series of impressions.
For nearly three months I’ve been writing a poem a day as a creative writing dscipline and I’m quite pleased with how it’s turning out.
A short notification that I’m taking part in – and very much enjoying – the Guardian Masterclass summer writers’ retreat.
The concluding piece in my short series about translating a section of Alex Schulman’s Överlevarna with the help of machine translation software.
An overview of on-line mechanical translation software and some of the general issues that make this software useful and/or problematic.
It’s not easy to write inarticulate characters and make them sympathetic. But Prince Charles managed it once (perhaps inadvertantly). How about you?
Sadly, we’ve recently been learning the names of weapons. There’s one name that’s the most successful name for a weapon in human history.
The origins and perennial attraction of personality tests and their potential as hooks to motivate writing and for characer development.
In which the author shares an eight-line wreath poem in iambic tetrameter, and atempts to explain how and why he went about writing it.