I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.
Entries Tagged as 'Writing'
Characters who Climb Up Your Pen – “Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth” – Xiaolu Guo
January 20th, 2012 · No Comments · Description, Writing
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First Drafts – “Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth” – Xiaolu Guo
January 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Quotes, Writing
Have you ever heard this: “Don’t maul, don’t suffer, don’t groan – till the first draft is finished”?’ ‘Who said that?’ ‘Tennessee Williams.’
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Two Big Steps – “Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth” – Xiaolu Guo
January 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Description, Quotes
When I left my village, it was like I took a step with my right foot and, by the time my left foot came to join it, four years had passed.
Tags:China·Cities·city migration·prose
The Beginning of Youth – “Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth” – Xiaolu Guo
January 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Description, Writing
MY YOUTH BEGAN WHEN I WAS 21. At least, that’s when I decided it began. That was when I started to think that all those shiny things in life – some of them might possibly be for me.
Tags:Asian·China·literature
Put it in Writing – “The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics Forever” – Philip Gould
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Campaigning, Electoralism, Political Communication, Politics, Progressive Politics, UK Labour, United Kingdom, Writing
Central to the War Book and one of my core beliefs is that you must be absolutely honest about your opponent’s strengths, and your own weaknesses, and that you should put them in writing. It is a risk putting sensitive information down on paper, but in my view unless you document hard campaigning truths they [...]
Casual Homophobia – “The Spy Who Came in From The Cold” – John LeCarre
November 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Description, Spy Thriller
Tall, with rather curly brown hair; orange tie and pale green shirt; a little bit petulant, a little bit of a pansy, thought Leamas. Could be a schoolmaster, ex London School of Economics and runs a suburban drama club. Weak-eyed. Hey! I’m ex- LSE – I didn’t realise it used to be a by-word for [...]
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Students’ Rooms – “A Visit From The Goon Squad” – Jennifer Egan
November 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Description, Writing
You follow Sasha into her room. Most students’ rooms are like hamster burrows padded with scraps and tufts of home – pillows and stuffed doggies and plug-in pots and furry slippers – but Sasha’s room is practically empty; she showed up last year with nothing but a suitcase.
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Sports Figure – “A Visit From The Goon Squad” – Jennifer Egan
November 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Description, Writing
She could tell that he was in excellent shape, not from going to the gym but from being young enough that his body was still imprinted with whatever sports he’d played in high school and college.
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True Philosophers – “Cannery Row” – John Steinbeck
November 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Literature, Philosophy, Prose, Writing
Doc said, “Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think,” he went on, “that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to [...]
Tags:contentment·life·philosophy·prose
A Dying Party – “Cannery Row” – John Steinbeck
November 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Literature, Prose, Writing
No one has studied the psychology of a dying party. It may be raging, howling, boiling, and then a fever sets in and a little silence and then quickly quickly it is gone, the guests go home or go to sleep or wander away to some other affair and they leave a dead body.
