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Inspired by ArtsJournal’s
blog post about Nabokov’s first sentence portraiture (reached via @Meanjin), I decided to engage in a little exercise. You’re all welcome to participate, and the rules are simple. Take however-many-you-like pieces of writing that you have lying around, and post their first sentences. Don’t just include the ones you think [...]
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Hello all and
welcome to the second edition of ‘Untangling The Web’! UtW’s aim is to become a semi-regular blog built to provide you with some of the trending topics across the Internet that relate to writing and publishing. Hopefully in doing so we’ll be able to generate some discussion and opinions about [...]
photo credit: josef.stuefer
Hello all and
welcome to the first blogisode (yeah I went there) of ‘Untangling The Web’! UtW’s aim is to become a semi-regular blog built to provide you with some of the trending topics across the Internet that relate to writing and publishing. Hopefully in doing so we’ll be able to generate some [...]
With the exception of the interviews of established, eccentric authors with more free time than they know what to do with, it’s increasingly difficult to find a writer that isn’t doing the deed across the crisp white sheen of a computer monitor. After all, the majority of us are on them for our job during [...]
Last night, as I watched the second instalment of the Die Hard series for the first time (having been a fan of the first and third movies since primary school [and let's not talk about 4.0]), I was struck with the similarity of John McClane’s predicament with that of a writer. Anyway, the thought persisted [...]