Don’t you deserve at least one day to write? Write 4 a Day is a new series of monthly one-day writing retreats in upstate New York. There is: no workshop no agenda no required activities no assignments no schedule no WiFi(!) Write. Don’t write. Think. Daydream. Doodle. Outline. Come for the whole day or just…
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Write 4 a Day: Sunday 17 Apr
Don’t you deserve at least one day to write? Write 4 a Day is a new series of monthly one-day writing retreats in upstate New York. While I shall be hosting the events, let me be clear that there is no workshop no agenda no required activities no assignments no schedule no WiFi Write. Don’t…
Happy ‘No’ Year
Happy New Year! I plan to make this the year of ‘no’: it’s not as negative as it sounds. For many years I have said ‘yes’ to far too many things. I am always hungry for experiences. And I generally only do things I actually want to do (I’ve become much better at not doing…
Writer Wednesday: Bear-Baiting
We live in interesting times. By which I mean we live as ever in difficult times; given the state of the planet we can be forgiven for a penchant for weaving apocalyptic narratives. It can be comforting to think that it’s only because we know so much more about what’s going on thanks to the…
Writer Wednesday: How to be Dull
[A guest post from Basil Morley — or rather, a snippet from his forthcoming book How to be Dull: Standing out next to Genius, truly a guide for our times. I am helping to edit the collection together.] FOLLOW THE FLOCK Tips for blending in with the crowd Fear more, hope less. You know what gets…
What’s New, Pussycat?
A few new things to let you know about: HÁVAMÁL After an inadvertent break, my translations and commentary of verses from Hávamál have returned over at Pagan Square. September ended up being even more of a juggling act than I had anticipated, so I am glad to finally get back to the project. Bit by…
Writer Wednesday: Write More
I’m sending off my prose writing class today: it’s odd having two half term classes instead of one. Mostly it feels as if we barely got started and we’re done. I don’t know how much they will take in from our dizzy spin through writing. Maybe nothing. Some will continue writing (probably the same ones…
Writer Wednesday: Romanticism
I’ve aimed to focus these posts on the project How to Keep Writing with a Full Time Job but allow me a bit of a digression today for something that bears repeating. I used to give my creative writing students a handout on the first day to demonstrate the difference between a dilettante and writer…