Michael Finnegan – hero of our time
Every new morning is a new opportunity to do like Michael Finnegan. A pep talk (to myself) and a way of not missing another blog post.
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.
Impressions from the SWF22
Last weekend I attended the SWF22 – the Stockholm Writers’ Festival 2022. I’m still digesting it, so what follows here is just a series of impressions.
Does a poem a day keep the engine turning over?
For nearly three months I’ve been writing a poem a day as a creative writing dscipline and I’m quite pleased with how it’s turning out.
On the The Guardian Masterclass Summer Writers’ Retreat
A short notification that I’m taking part in – and very much enjoying – the Guardian Masterclass summer writers’ retreat.
Machine translation and translating a literary text
The concluding piece in my short series about translating a section of Alex Schulman’s Överlevarna with the help of machine translation software.
Translating and using mechanical translation tools
An overview of on-line mechanical translation software and some of the general issues that make this software useful and/or problematic.
Inarticulate characters – know what I mean?
It’s not easy to write inarticulate characters and make them sympathetic. But Prince Charles managed it once (perhaps inadvertantly). How about you?
Name your weapons
Sadly, we’ve recently been learning the names of weapons. There’s one name that’s the most successful name for a weapon in human history.
Personality questionnaires and character development
The origins and perennial attraction of personality tests and their potential as hooks to motivate writing and for characer development.
Writing a wreath – adventures in poetry
In which the author shares an eight-line wreath poem in iambic tetrameter, and atempts to explain how and why he went about writing it.