Category: Creative writing

  • Knowing what you don’t know

    Creativity is about acting as a shaping consciousness. There is beauty and pleasure if the story leaves spaces for the imagination, and asks questions about what the writer does and does not know.

  • Write a book and get a degree

    For people working on a book, an MA in Creative Writing is something to consider. It provides a structure, deadlines, support and feedback; the kind of sustained professional help that is hard to find.

  • The ‘slow journalism’ meme

    A round-up of instances that show the history of the Slow Journalism meme, with thoughts on the alchemy of of ideas, and the difficulty of pinning down ownership in the digital realm.

  • Facts and feelings

    When President Obama sacked General Stanley McChrystal in June because of the military man’s indiscretions, no one was thinking very much about the literary implications.