This thing called wantin’ and havin’ it all…
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in Paul Anderson | 4 Comments »In 2007, Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. At the time, she said “Thank you does not seem enough when you’ve won the best of them all. It is astonishing and amazing,” especially as she had ...
The good, the popular
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Paul Anderson | 2 Comments »Over the past week Jodi and I have been having a long discussion about book lists: The first list was compiled out of books that people bought because they feel they ought to read them, but never got round to it. ...
Poetry
Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Posted in Paul Anderson | 5 Comments »If you take A normal sentence from a regular Paragraph, And break the lines at Irregular intervals It may be free verse, but is it Poetry? This week the Writer's Blog asked Why Don't Poems Rhyme Anymore? A group called The Queen's English Society is ...
Do you remember your first time?
Sunday, April 20th, 2008 Posted in Paul Anderson | 1 Comment »As writers, we are avid readers. You have to be when you write, the two go hand in hand. I am curious to know whether you remember the first book you read? And I'm going to be strict about ...
Got muse?
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in Paul Anderson | 3 Comments »Let me let you in on a little secret, about how I write these articles. Sometimes, on a really good day, I get an idea, I write, I review the article, then I set it to publish at 00:02 on Sunday ...
Eloquence
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Paul Anderson | No Comments »On Wednesday Tammi wrote about Thought, Articulation and Writing. In my comment to Tammi I mentioned that, despite competing in public speaking and debating championships when I was in high school, I would no longer describe myself as a competent speaker ...
Making it up as you go along…
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Posted in Paul Anderson | 1 Comment »Last Sunday, the UK’s Observer newspaper carried a story about author Ronny M Cole’s advice to parents that they should make up stories at bedtime for their children, rather than simply read them a bedtime story. This comes on ...
Adverse writing conditions
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 Posted in Paul Anderson | 3 Comments »By the time you read this, I may be sitting at the top of a mountain, in the middle of Derbyshire, fumbling with a pen and paper through thick gloves, huddled against a craggy outcrop, sheltering from the wind and ...
