What does inspiration mean to you? What inspires you? Can you pinpoint the moment when inspiration strikes, when you can hear the chorus of souls singing to you? Long before Google first engooglated (and – I should stress – before other search engines, which also exist, first engineered any searches there were things called dictionaries. […]
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May the Fourth, in a very real sense, be with you
Remember, the Fourth will be with you. Always. Well, for today, at least. Today is May the Fourth 2015. It being #StarWarsDay, there’s every reason to celebrate all things StarWarsulent. What’s your favourite thing about Star Wars? Or if you loathe the Wars – and you’ve every right to do so – then, why? I’ve […]
Mad Men: What is @JanieBryant’s favourite costume from the final episodes?
Mad Men is at an end. It’s delicate. But it’s potent. What will you miss most about the world of Don Draper and co? The elegance and decadence? The exquisitely paced storytelling? The clothes? Mad Men is perhaps the most perfect TV show there has ever been. In every detail. The lives of the characters […]
The single greatest tweet I have ever received
If you are one who tweets, what’s the single greatest tweet you have ever received? What combination of 140 characters or fewer has brought you the most joy and/or had you diving fastest for the “favourite” button? Gentle reader, I think I have just today (Saturday 25 April 2015) had tweeted unto me the single […]
Interrogate every beat
When you write, every word counts. No room for weak links. Why permit any half measures (as I’m sure Breaking Bad fans in particular will appreciate)? In writing – and indeed, in just about anything else you wish to do well – you need to interrogate every beat. /“Interrogate every beat.” I came across these […]
Something that multiplies when it is divided
Blogaverse (and all who would blog within it), it’s been a wee while since I shared anything. It’s time for that to change. Keeping schtum won’t get you owt. So what multiplies when it is divided? No clear point to make or narrative path through this post. All I want to do is share with […]
Bold moves are the best moves
What do you most want to be doing? What’s stopping you? There are times when the best thing to do is what you’re least comfortable doing. There is nothing holding you back. Now to use the “S” word. Serendipitiously, I read two outstanding pieces this week from authors at different ends of the world, each […]
The most James Bond sentence ever written?
James Bond, Agent 007 and possessor of the licence to – in a very real sense – kill, is by no means a nice person. Ian Fleming’s Bond novels are remarkably entertaining, superbly and sparely written, and in many ways to the sensitivities of the modern reader, very wrong. I wish to celebrate perhaps the […]
Is the best writing a chain of inevitabilities?
Season’s greetings, gentle reader. In this Christmas day post, I want to celebrate a fictional conversation that took place three decades ago today (kind of, in a fictitious way). It’s all about what makes for great writing – a subject which will never cease to fascinate me. Is the best writing a chain of inevitabilities? […]
The Dark Side… and The Light
“There has been an awakening… Have you felt it?” Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is already blessed with perhaps the greatest movie trailer there has ever been. If you have not yet seen it, please do yourself the favour of your life and view it now: I can’t even begin to describe how […]
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