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The copy editor doesn’t like your style, and has changed it to one they do like. Some of your jokes…
My dream of the countryside was, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, to lead to a rude awakening. The farms were…
Penny Boxall explores her long-standing fascination with the traditional craft of marbling. Penny Boxall explores her fascination with the traditional…
Within six months of my arrival in San Francisco, I was married to a gay man who I would later…
Making time for the writing seems to have a magical effect, generating more time, somehow. It is self-renewing. Making time…
It is certainly possible that the ability to correct our work so easily has made us lazier, as well as…
Linda Cracknell follows Robert Louis Stevenson to France, and Dan Richards visits Tove Jansson’s Finnish archipelago. Linda Cracknell travels to…
Writers use people’s experiences as their raw materials; distorting, or otherwise exaggerating them. But for a reason. Writers use people’s…
I’m lucky enough to have a core group of fellow writers with whom I regularly swap drafts of work. It’s…
Didn’t Shakespeare combine the quotidian with the supernatural, the mythical with the philosophical, all the time? Didn’t Shakespeare combine the…
Chris Arthur explores the world of obscure collective nouns, arguing that some should be retired for good. Obscure collective nouns…
In my dreams, my home is a clinically efficient office space, where I clock in to my desk at nine,…
