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After yesterday’s wisdom from Ursula Le Guin, here again via THIN|SILENCE is more on the “climax technology” of pen and paper A good pen or pencil and a well-made notebook…
Via the THINSILENCE blog I came across this gem-like passage on handwriting from Ursula K Le Guin Remembering writing outdoors at Hedgebrook and elsewhere, I think about the human pace…
A 2015 blog post by John Ayliff observes: The early Railway stories were based on real railway incidents, and the characters were based on real models of locomotive (Thomas is…
It’s been a while since I posted a fiction update – Jan 2017 to be precise. The one before that was two years ago. Alas, the pattern of outlets I…
I came across this call for submissions for an upcoming anthology by Otter Libris: There is a tradition in the United States Navy that no submarine is ever truly lost…
I stumbled across this post randomly. Just as when reading Adam deVille discussing late stage capitalism, I am not totally sure if “neoliberalism” is quite the right term for what…
In the current TLS there is an excellent review by David Rundle of two recent books on handwriting. Anyone who knows me, or more specifically had had to read my…
2016 was a pretty lean year for me as far as actually writing fiction went. Indeed, there is little to update compared to a year ago. However, as well as the recent…
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