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Walking On Bones

Walking on Bones

...en la sombra Aparecen los muertos Como luces y frutos Como vasos de sangre Como piedras de abismo Como ramas y frondas De dulces visceras (We bite the shadow And...
Harnessing The Dream

Harnessing The Dream

...or describe the story out loud too quickly. First, time to dream is needed (walking, pondering, reading, staring out of the window…). Then comes the attempt to commit the confused...
The Story Of Ourselves

The Story Of Ourselves

...company, he now cultivates x hectares of coffee, producing x number of coffee beans a year, from which x number of cups, including yours, are made. Now ask yourself: did...
A Self Among The Crowd

A Self Among the Crowd

...form her literary clique, and afterwards complained to fellow poet Robert Nichols that ‘I tried to get [Charlotte] to come and see me, but she is a hermit… though she...

Being a writer

...compose’ and two of the meanings of ‘compose’ are ‘to construct’ and ‘to arrange in a specified manner’. So writing does not just mean putting words down on the page:...

Sentences

...a tangent. Sentences – common problems Here I work through some common problems with sentences and give you strategies for solving them. Length Most writing guides will tell you that...

Research and writing – which comes first?

...writing.” “Completing a thesis means writing a thesis; it does not mean completing the research. Delaying the writing by spending too much time as ‘a researcher’ leads to all sorts...
A Forest Called Homeland

A Forest Called Homeland

...that he is both hunter and hunted. ‘And because of that,’ Maria said, ‘the fire worshippers of each generation come to this spot to commune with fire and cleanse themselves....
Delight In The Dullest Of Places

Delight In The Dullest Of Places

...volumes. Ice skating comes to mind; if a figure skater makes a routine look difficult, they will not win the competition. The same has to be true for a successful...
The Bestseller Detector

The Bestseller Detector

...components result in horrendous complexity. The systems themselves might be simple – a pendulum with a hinge in the middle is chaotic – or complex, such as the weather. But...
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