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The Manchester Anthology: February 2011
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How to build a book, in quite a few uneasy steps. Saturday, 26 February 2011. Welcome to the website for the Manchester Anthology 2011. This is the official collection of new fiction from the 2011 graduates of the Manchester University MA in creative writing. Called 'one of the highest-profile creative writing courses in the English-speaking world' by The Independent. But as an account of the faintly terrifying process of building a book from scratch, then printing it, selling it, and trying not to get t...
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The Manchester Anthology: March 2011
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How to build a book, in quite a few uneasy steps. Saturday, 26 March 2011. This is a post about scheduling. Fittingly, it's late. Adding a week on for paranoia time, it seemed sensible for press to be around three weeks before the date we want the thing released. I've always been a fan of Friday press dates, because it means that after the raging horror of last-minute problems (first rule of publishing club: something will go wrong) you can go to the pub and not come out until everything is better. So th...
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Alec's Oddments: Facts and fiction
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Words, words, words. Monday, 1 November 2010. However, when you're trying to write about the Cyprus Problem (what Britain calls it when it wants to make it sound like Cyprus's own fault) or the Cyprus Dispute (what Britain calls it when it wants several thousand years of disgruntlement, unease and intermittent killing to sound like two neighbours squabbling over a leylandii), you don't get facts. Just stuff. Also put your title in Greek, to make it clear which side of the Greek/Turkish divide you're on.
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Alec's Oddments: September 2010
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Words, words, words. Thursday, 30 September 2010. People were kind. This is good. I thank them for helpful comments and sparing of my self-respect. I think my monster is now looking reasonably attractive. It might not be a thing of holiness, but it shouldnt scare the villagers. Links to this post. Sunday, 26 September 2010. In the beginning were some words. Also, I wanted to put this up:. Links to this post. Friday, 24 September 2010. Howard Jacobson at the Guardian Book Club. As part of the Manchester c...
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Alec's Oddments: December 2010
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Words, words, words. Wednesday, 29 December 2010. Oh 'eck, I've been neglecting this blog. It was terrifically exciting at first, but now the novelty has worn off I'm starting to lose interest. A bit like parenting, then. Is there an internet social services? Not yet, anyway. Links to this post. Saturday, 11 December 2010. Things said to me by ex-girlfriends and in rejection letters from literary journals. You're not quite what I'm looking for right now, but please continue trying. Links to this post.
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Alec's Oddments: August 2010
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Words, words, words. Monday, 30 August 2010. The new lit part two: a beast with many heads. The previous post in this microseries fumbled about with new forms of fiction, mostly involving using computers and the internet to transmit arty words in different ways. This time I’m going to look not at the words themselves but at the people behind them, and how people are starting to challenge and reconstruct the concept of an author. . Links to this post. Thursday, 26 August 2010. Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths.
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Alec's Oddments: February 2011
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Words, words, words. Saturday, 26 February 2011. As well as scribbling away I'm currently trying to make an anthology of splendid stuff by people on my MA course. I think this counts as self-self-publishing, or something: the whole production process is happening in-house. And by 'house', I mean 'room in university tower block where I have a laptop with InDesign on it'. With any luck by early June you'll be able to buy copies of The Manchester Anthology. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Alec's Oddments: May 2010
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Words, words, words. Saturday, 29 May 2010. Lost in the supermarket. Certain regions of supermarkets are lands of horror and darkness. Food is fine. I can do food. Pick things that are tasty and not rotten, put them in basket, wave basket at the automatic scanner thing, hit the automatic scanner thing, then look sheepish while aisle attendant fixes automatic scanner thing. Easy. . Links to this post. Tuesday, 25 May 2010. The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills. Links to this post. Saturday, 22 May 2010.
