Gothenburg Film Festival 2023
An overview of my Gothenburg Film Festival this year. Some films, some stories I saw and heard told; some theatres I visited.
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.
Social media – huh – what is it good for?
Events around Twitter towards the end of last year, reignited a years’ long argument with myself about the value of a social media presence.
The Writing Resolutions 2023
This first blog post of the year is a review of my writing resolutions from 2022, setting the stage for 2023.
Old books – more than the sum of their parts
Sorting my mother’s old books I came across volumes remembered from when I was a child. They contained so much more than their own pages.
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.
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.