Category Archives: rant;

Some thoughts on writing, revisited

Posted on March 15, 2017 by

I wrote the following about eighteen months ago in reaction to a lot of the advice to writers I’d seen posted here and there about the internet. It started as a rant but I managed to tone it down by the … Continue reading →

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Ill winds are blowing

Posted on February 8, 2017 by

Two triolets Both say much the same thing because I wrote the first and then turned it into the second to fit the character limit for twitter. 1) Ill winds are blowing Out of the west Certainties going Ill winds are … Continue reading →

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Writer, eclipsed.

Posted on November 26, 2016 by

I started this villanelle ages back – so long back I can’t quite recall when, except that it was the last time there was a partial lunar eclipse visible in this part of the world. That’s pretty clear from the … Continue reading →

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