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About this Blog
This blog is currently just being used for developing custom themes. You can pretty much ignore it as there isn’t any real content. Even this text is essentially just here to show the developer how what the blog text looks like. Developing themes can be quite tricky; in some ways it is much more challenging […]
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John Fowles: Mischanneling
John Fowles on the strengths of the novel vs. the screenplay: Why have I got it in for the novel? […] All the purely visual and aural sequences in the modern novel are a bore, both to read and to write. People’s physical appearance, their movements, their sounds, places, moods of places – the camera […]
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John Fowles: Choosing to Be a Writer
It would, I believe, be disingenuous to hold a class without offering the unsuited persons in the assembly a chance to leave the room. To be a writer – that is, someone for whom writing is closer to being a aspect of being rather than a particular activity, demands certain distinctions. There are many personal […]
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John Fowles: Writers are not Doers?
At the heart of my studies (and my teaching) is the question what is a writer? Certainly, it is not someone who simply writes things down; and nor is it necessarily someone who writes a text. An artist is not someone who daubs canvas with paint any further than frequent flyer is an aerospace engineer. […]
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The Hobbit Crisis
The story of the fraught negotiations behind the The Hobbit could well turn out to be be more fascinating than the film itself: Over the past five weeks a dramatic series of events has played out in New Zealand in regard to the Hobbit production. Those events tell us interesting things about today’s global filmmaking […]
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ACE
Ace. I mean the ACE plugin lets you hide certain posts from WP pages. I’ve buried all those annoying twitter digests using it. Just the thing.
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Student Protests and Liberal Democrats
David Mitchell Nick Clegg getting a good kicking? Could anything be more joyous? Students bring out a violent streak in me. When I see NUS spokespeople on TV talking simplistically about tuition fees, even though I basically agree with the sentiments they express so unattractively, I want to punch them. But I also like watching […]
