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Catherine Pettersson and the Stockholm Writers’ Festival
An interview with Catherine Pettersson, the driving force behind the Stockholm Writers' Festival that will have it's sixth iteration this coming August.
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TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
In my teens, I was an aficionado of the works of Nevil Shute, one of the great storytellers, and I devoured most if not all of his novels. One of…
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The Call of the Void
Bruce Dodson shares a poem as his Bi-weekly Wisdom this week
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Personality questionnaires and character development
There is a perennial attraction in personality tests. And you can use them to help you develop fictional characters.
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Getting Sloppy with It
On the matter of making art, sometimes painters will get intentionally sloppy with their work to get their creativity muscles working. Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images Some visual artists may do a…
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Colour, theme, practice
I recently spent a few writing days with a visiting friend from university days. We got through our finals year by revising together, allowing ourselves 15 minutes of jigsaw puzzle…
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That ever elusive masterpiece…
Photo credit behance.net Maria Popova of The Marginalian points out the quantity of books available on reading and writing, both advantageous pastimes, is likely to far exceed a single human…
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Welcome to my workspace!
John describes his workspace - the place where he sits to write and participate in video conference s.
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Magic Tricks
I have just finished reading the bio-novel about Thomas Mann by Colm Toibin. The Magician delves into Mann’s repressed homosexuality and, as I see it, Toibin views everything Mann wrote…