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Writing Life: Manifesto
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Musings on life writing. Saturday, 27 March 2010. Keep on going through self-doubt, criticism, a sore back, rejection, ridicule and terror. Honour that tiny light that sparks sometimes when I touch keyboard or grip a pen. Let go of pride, decency, even ambition. Make that stab in the dark. Dwell in uncertainty and make friends with insecurity. Be hungry. Leap for that goal. Turn into a rainbow shoal of fish as I do it. Or a dead man in a stinking overcoat. Kiss the scabs on my fingers. Chill the fuck out.
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Writing Life: Graham Greene
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Musings on life writing. Monday, 29 March 2010. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Notes, thoughts, ideas, and quotes on memoir writing – chiefly for myself, but other writers may find them helpful. Dave Eggers on his non-fiction novel, Zeitoun. On Carrie. and Creative Writing Courses. Biography: from Hermione Lees Body Parts. Our beginnings never know our endings. Reality Hunger - The Guardian. Dave Eggers on memoir (from A Heartbreaking Work . Are you serious about this?
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Writing Life: Boxes...
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Musings on life writing. Monday, 29 March 2010. Collect memories in a box with a set of index cards - every time you have a memory, write it down and put it in the box, in the right year. Alternatively, collect memories by theme. Whatever scares or blocks you right now in your writing process - write it down and throw inside. Everyone needs a map for where they're going in their book/piece, even if it's a messy one! Necessary for re-orientating the work at times. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Writing Life: Dave Eggers on memoir (from 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius')
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Musings on life writing. Saturday, 27 March 2010. Dave Eggers on memoir (from 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'). An acquaintance of the author's accosted him at a Western-themed restaurant/bar, while the author was eating a hearty plate of ribs and potatoes served fried in the French style. The accoster sat down opposite, asking what was new, what was up,. Asked the aquaintance. (Let's call him, oh, "Oswald.") What's it about? C'mon, don't pull that old trick, man! He had a point! Hoping to ch...
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Writing Life: Dave Eggers on his 'non-fiction' novel, 'Zeitoun'
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Musings on life writing. Tuesday, 30 March 2010. Dave Eggers on his 'non-fiction' novel, 'Zeitoun'. Available on Iplayer until this Thursday. Open Book. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Notes, thoughts, ideas, and quotes on memoir writing – chiefly for myself, but other writers may find them helpful. Dave Eggers on his non-fiction novel, Zeitoun. On Carrie. and Creative Writing Courses. Biography: from Hermione Lees Body Parts. Our beginnings never know our endings.
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Writing Life: March 2010
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Musings on life writing. Tuesday, 30 March 2010. Dave Eggers on his 'non-fiction' novel, 'Zeitoun'. Available on Iplayer until this Thursday. Open Book. Links to this post. Monday, 29 March 2010. On 'Carrie'. and Creative Writing Courses. Stephen King talks to Mark Lawson (short clip). Links to this post. Labels: Creative Writing Courses. Biography: from Hermione Lee's 'Body Parts'. Biography is the process of making up, or making over.". Is there any such thing as a fact? Links to this post. Go back and...
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Sink or Swim: All Your Women Things
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Saturday, 29 October 2011. All Your Women Things. Labels: All Your Women Things. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. All Your Women Things. Keep Your Head Above Water. The Worlds Sexiest Swimming Pools. Last Perfect Day of Summer. All photos taken by me unless stated otherwise. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Sink or Swim: Isle of Wight: swimming memories
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Monday, 4 October 2010. Isle of Wight: swimming memories. Black sand in between bony toes. A kestrel circling the bay. My own nakedness against the wave. How it slapped my shoulder hard. A boy with a toy gun, another with a stone. Him reading on the shore. Crying quietly in the back of the car, to a folk tune I’d usually skip over. Chairlifts – how we flew across treetops, descending the cliff. Ice lolly. Salt on my lips all day. Top photo: courtesy Olivia Laing. Location: Isle Of Wight, UK.
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Death And Aging: May 2006
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006. Hiking up London Road. Where old men in caps. Marked for Ditchling Beacon. In a puddle of. Up the grey lawns. In the pavement,. Skating on shiny flat heels. The last Sunday in. Hidden in its own. By the smell of opium,. And withering- car horns,. Posted by Clare @ 4:13 PM. Monday, May 22, 2006. Karenin's Smile, Milan Kundera. If only Tomas hadn't been a doctor! He took them as truths to identify with, to give his life meaning.). His look of awful trust did not last long; he soon la...
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Sink or Swim: The Dip
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Monday, 20 September 2010. And squirming in my 'two-man' tent that closely resembled a coffin. However, I woke up to this. The photo doesn't really do it justice. Mist rolling in at 6.45am is a beautiful thing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. All photos taken by me unless stated otherwise. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
