Creative Writing and Independent Authorship
[Sticky Post] At the Quill is the category where I collect all my posts about creative writing. Also posts about independent authorship and self-publishing.
At the Quill
At the Quill: About creative writing in my experience and practice. Also posts about independent authorship and self-publishing. Read Creative Writing and Independent Authorship for more details or scroll down.
Bruce and the Spider – writing resolutions in 2022
My writing resolutions for 2022 are much the same as for 2021. Here’s a look back and a look forward in the spirit of Bruce and the Spider.
Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary
Liminal places are the spaces between, whether libraries or buildings, corridors or dark woods; threasholds we must cross in order to grow.
A November Legacy – looking back at TheSupercargo
After all these years there’s a legacy of posts at TheSupercargo stretching back for 10+ years; here are some November adjacent ones.
Curse words we all use – but less often nowadays
I use the F-word more often and curse more, going against several trends among English speakers, it seems, but also with them in one respect.
Actual author meets implied reader – or doesn’t
In which we consider the author, the author’s imagined reader and the author’s actual reader, and the gaps between them.
Of the muse Clio and other daemons
Do you have a muse? Long ago I co-opted Clio, muse of history, but like Rudyard Kipling’s cat, she walks by herself and isn’t very reliable.
From the reservoir: a decade of TheSupercargo in August
After all these years of writing for TheSupercargo, there’s a reservoir of posts stretching back for more than a decade. Here are some.
Podcast creativity, thinking aloud and Elin’s Story
Thinking about podcast scripts, trying to move forward with Elin’s Story, my historical novel, and exploring my own creative process as I go.
Taking to heart Douglas Adams’ “note to self”
Douglas Adams, wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, yet had terrible difficulties in writing. He wrote himself this note of encouragement.
Night of the Kings – storytelling and story creation
In Night of the Kings, a film from Ivory Coast, Roman, a new inmate in the MACA prison must entertain his fellow prisoners by telling a story.