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It would be very wrong not to ask you along.
Seeing as it’s you who has taught me most of what I have to share.
Here’s the blurb:
Since the living death of Twitter, Substack has become the main platform for writers to connect with rea...
Sometimes you’ll find you have no heart for writing; I can’t put it any more intellectually than that.
Alone with what you’ve failed to make.
You are dead to it and it is dead to you because it is it and you, to your shame and dismay, are...
What follows is a generalisation; a useful one I hope:
The novel and the short story, but also the novella, take on the task of depicting society in different ways. This may sound vague, and for society I might have said the world.
To put...
It is readers who truly make the difference between novels and short stories. Because, beyond the analogies, there is the decisiveness of audience.
Short stories are different from novels in this way: short stories have better readers.
Or...
AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
That was the Guardian headline yesterday. Fairly self-explan. And this was the paragraph that really got me:
Asked by the Guardian to review some of the...
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Reader. Activist. Writer. Runs Creative Writing at the University of Southampton
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