 What animal are you, apart from being human? Reading Joy Williams’ brilliant short stories, Visiting Rights, I reacted in a flash to these words : Of course privately they all thought of themselves as cheetahs. There was not a single exception to this. Faster than words, I knew I would be not a cheetah […]
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Let me share a couple of language usage innovations I’ve heard. Slips of the tongue? Harbingers of change? Corporate jargon? Or just errors?
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Privacy issues can paralyse a writer. What to hide, what to reveal? That’s a question every writer must confront or suffer writer’s block.
The question is, why did I spend four years dithering instead of writing a particular book, namely Live Long And Like It.
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Poem. The way of the blog is not your choice: it chooses you.
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When is a blogging sabbatical not a sabbatical? When a home is not a home.
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