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Friday Writing Experiment No. 22: Voice 1: Listening

An updated version of this post can be found on Substack – January 2025. Following up on some of the

I was at the Writers’ Workshop Getting Published day as a book doctor on Saturday. I met a number of

This last weekend I went to Helsinki. It was my first time in Finland, and it was fabulous. Monumental buildings,

I love lists. I have whole spiels on lists in literature. ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg. Sections of the Old Testament

This week we’ve had Pancake Day, Chinese New Year and/or Shambhala Day/Tibetan New Year bringing us the Year of the

So, for all our attempts to invoke spring last week, it’s still winter out there. Sun, some blue skies, but

I don’t know about you, but it’s felt like a long and cold winter, and according to the calendar we’ve

To mark the publication of Astrology Decoded by Sue Merlyn Farebrother, let’s use some astrology in this week’s writing experiment. The

I just read a very useful article with lots of practical tips: ‘How To Avoid The Self-Published Look’. To that

Last night I went to Treadwell’s for the launch of Astrology Decoded, by Sue Merlyn Farebrother. Sue was my tarot teacher, and

Yesterday I read an interesting piece via Galley Cat that asked why so many fiction writers start by writing novels

I just read in the LRB an enjoyable review by James Wolcott of the selected letters of William Styron. Sometimes,