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  • Blog Briefs: On Burnout, with Nicole Murphy

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    In which a bunch of authors & editors are invited to answer the question: How do you deal with creative exhaustion? Author Nicole Murphy became my hero a few years back. She threw in a career for a chance – just a chance! – at a writing career. It paid off. Today she answers the question: What…

  • Blog Briefs: On Burnout, with Thoraiya Dyer

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    In which a bunch of authors & editors are invited to answer the question: How do you deal with creative exhaustion? Second up: author Thoraiya Dyer turns explorer & lends us her energy & delight:   Travel. Just go somewhere new. If I can’t go somewhere, I close my eyes, spin the globe in Google Earth,…

  • Blog Briefs: On Burnout, with Rjurik Davidson

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    In which a bunch of authors & editors are invited to answer the question: How do you deal with creative exhaustion?   And we’re off to a flying start with this thoughtful answer from author Rjurik Davidson. When writers talk about creative exhaustion, I suspect they’re actually talking about a range of things: the sense that…

  • Blog: Choosing your reality

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    She says: “I have to get back to real life again. It wasn’t an easy decision, because it took a lot to get to the stage of being a published author. But during my teacher training so far, I’ve dealt with so much – flooded schools, fire alarms going off, children being sick …” And,…

  • Blog: “Your problem is, you’re too honest”

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    Ayup, it’s been a year of people “helping” me to be a better me. Which is nice, innit? Some kind of hilarious stars-out-of-alignment, anti-self-improvement, drone-filled ‘one of us’ years with the untested assumption on the part of those around me, ‘don’t you want to be more like me?’ Having hit forty, gentle reader, there’s a…

  • Quote: Ricky Gervais on artistic freedom

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    It’s not about power. It’s about artistic freedom. And if it is about power, it’s a power you can give to yourself anytime you want. If you can’t be bought, you’re the richest man in the world. I just always feel if you can make something from scratch you’ll always be OK. Growing up, one…

  • Marvellous review of 21st Century Gothic

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    … over at The Gothic Imagination from the UK’s University of Stirling. Read the review. Buy the book!

  • ‘wether we all script our lives’

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    ”It makes me wonder, that part of the story, whether we all script our lives and then just re-enact them, almost as if it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Morris says. ”We just imagine who we are and what our life story will be and then we act it.   ”That seems like what Joyce has done.…

  • Empathy is not Action

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    “These days empathy has become a shortcut. It has become a way to experience delicious moral emotions without confronting the weaknesses in our nature that prevent us from actually acting upon them. It has become a way to experience the illusion of moral progress without having to do the nasty work of making moral judgments.…

  • Swapping Treacherous Carrots with the Battersblog

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    Today author & raconteur Lee Battersby has published what amounts to one of my pub-style rants on the nature of things, over at the Battersblog. This time: carrots. Part of Lee’s examination of art & writing. And if none of that makes sense to you, you should probably go back to the beginning. Thanks, Lee,…