Month: January 2010

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Literaturetraining and Linda Cracknell

Writing The Long Way Around

We had a guest speaker yesterday, the author Linda Cracknell whose blog is here. Linda was accompanied by Philippa Johnston the Director of Literaturetraining, an online one stop shop offering a wealth of information and resources for writers. It was a three hour session designed to get us thinking about our goals as writers, what we want to accomplish, where we want to be after graduating, in three years, in five years and crucially, how we are going to accomplish such lofty goals. Linda Cracknell took us through her journey from a standing start to where she is now. I was impressed that a published author … Continue reading Literaturetraining and Linda Cracknell

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The Perfect Partnership

Writing The Long Way Around

Bacon and eggs. Gin and tonic. Burton and Taylor. I am sure you can think of many more. I was given the perfect partnership for Christmas this year – a Sony Reader and a hot water bottle with a pink fake fur cover. Aahhhh! (although reading a book without the physical book required quite a leap of faith. I feel a bit like the Roadrunner running without noticing there is no road beneath him. ‘Sa work in progress) Continue reading The Perfect Partnership

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David Foster Wallace

Writing The Long Way Around

I was introduced to this writer through our close reading practice and there is a link to the piece we looked at in the entry on November 8 – Close Reading of the Literary Kind. Tonight when I was waiting for our quiz I picked up one of the McSweeney’s and started to read another short story by the amazingly talented David Foster Wallace. I can’t post a link to the piece because I was interrupted before finishing and didn’t take a note of the title – d’oh!  I will tomorrow. I did however Google DFW not ten minutes ago … Continue reading David Foster Wallace