Writing

A Novel Approach To Editing

August 31, 2009

Some word processing packages have facilities to track revisions to your documents. In her book The Writer’s Survival Guide, Rachel Simon offers a slightly less sophisticated technique for making non-destructive revisions to your manuscript.

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Minor Memoirs

August 24, 2009

Continuing in what seems to be an unintentional series of blog posts inspired by my childhood, while sorting through old papers and documents I found something quite interesting. My autobiography.

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Writing Down My Bones

July 9, 2009

Something about Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down The Bones grated on my sensibilities and I took an almost instant dislike to the book. So much of it is at best abstract and at worst wishy-washy and metaphysical.

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Lee Stringer: Addiction Does Not Grow You

May 19, 2009
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When Lee Stringer appeared on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope television show, Denton asked, “What was the rush of writing like compared to the rush of crack?”

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The Syntax Of Twitter

March 4, 2009

John is as John does. Or something. I’ll never forget the words of my year ten English teacher Ms. Beddoe. She wrote: John is a fluent, careful writer. This actually puzzled me more than anything that had appeared on a school report before.

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