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How to Write a Phd Thesis http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/thesis.html Produced by the University of New South Wales, this site gives some simple and practical advice on the problems of getting started, getting...
Finding The Woman In ‘The Kiss’

Finding the Woman In ‘The Kiss’

In 2018 I was commissioned by the Belvedere Museum in Vienna to write a one-woman show for the bilingual – and very tall – actress Maxi Blaha about Emile Flöge,...

How complex or simple should sentences be?

“There is a tendency for sentences to be long and involved, or to include sentences without a verb. But, again, more scholarly writers often have an extremely clear style and...
Canine Companions

Canine Companions

If you’re Edgar Allan Poe, you have a raven. If you’re Margaret Atwood, you have a cat. If you’re Lord Byron, you have…well, an entire menagerie. But I like to...
Writers Writing About Writers Writing

Writers Writing About Writers Writing

Unless you’re, say, Philip Roth, it’s hard to see why, as a writer, you would ever want to write about the writer’s life, with all its drudgery, ennui, despair and...

Basic definitions

Pop quiz Journalist Robert Winder has this to say about essays: ‘In a way, an essay is just a grown-up version of the tie-breakers in supermarket quizzes: Complete the line...
Creative Compost

Creative Compost

In this era of cultural cut-and-paste, we consume our stories in an ever-increasing variety of forms: the app, the computer game, the graphic novel, the audience-led drama, the compellingly viewable...
Ut Pictura Poesis

Ut Pictura Poesis

I am a painter and a poet. At art college, many years before the rise of creative writing courses, I learned the craft of painting. Much of this has, in...
The Woman In The Window

The Woman In The Window

An acquaintance of mine once joked, ‘Why doesn’t Nick look out the window in the morning? Because then he’d had have nothing to do in the afternoon.’ But the truth...
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