Occasionally the American featured celebrity tracing his/her family tree comes across as – much as I hate to say this – worryingly clueless about wider history and lives lived prior to the present.
What Do You Think They Know?
No, You CANNOT Always Be Writing
I always think when I see such a meme or assertion: “If you actually do believe that rubbish, you’ll learn that you can’t do it. I have.”
A Writer Now From Bedfordshire
As they say, Oh, My, god. I have a new novel I want to finish. This is not exactly great.
‘Tis Been A Most Pleasant Place
So change is happening. We are moving. My posts this week, possibly into next… well, there may not be any.
“No way at this hour”
Hmm, I suspect I don’t really take these social media writer things seriously enough. 😉
You Say “Favourite,” She Says “Favorite”
I will always remember what I was told after I revealed in 2013 I was writing Passports and showed the initial draft first to my (English) Mrs., and then to an English woman friend. Having read it, separately they both noticed that I was inadvertently mixing American-English language forms and British-English.
If I Ever Lose My Faith…
In my early-middle twenties, I thought much that same way as he writes. It all seemed hypocritical, absurd, and unnecessary. Then I met someone who suggested a perspective I had never before really considered…
“Hello to you in 1801”
Television is a form of mass theater that is sent invisibly into homes and viewed on an object that looks something like a window and is hung on a wall; whilst Twitter is best characterized to you I think as appearing on interactive television we call “the internet” and it much resembles the graffiti one sees scrawled by angry mobs anonymously on walls in Paris and in Rome.
Twenty Years On
A mere seven years ago, in early 2012, most of you had never heard of me and I knew of almost NONE of you (who did not know me already in real life).
A Plaque On The Wall… For A Writer
Don’t groan. I know you find that all rather obscure history stuff. But I find it fascinating, okay.
And you never know when you might find it useful knowledge…
“What is happening at home?”
I thought once again about how learning history is, yes, about broadly knowing “big events”; but more important is drilling down to contextualize them and seeking better to understand those lives lived before ours.
After The Conclusion: “Maya” And Others
My mother never knew any of my books even existed because I was certain she would have been unhappy with them; I didn’t see the point of creating trouble and my uncle had agreed with me on that…
The Ongoing “Discoveries”
I admit I adore some of those “who” I write, and my hope is that over the course of a book that a reader comes to do so as well.
How “Should” I Write?
How DO I write? This way: I write cover to cover in a style that I enjoy reading…
At The End Of The Day
Sometimes I write a comment and afterwards I think… that should not be “buried” among other comments.
