Category: Wonderings
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Place Names Inspire Me
Oh, yes. I’ve laboured on this topic often. How boring of me. Doubtful Sound inspired Lonely Farm and Lonely Farm inspired Lonely Sound. But it’s true that these kinds of odd, lonely, wild names awaken something in me that claws to get out. Here are some of my favourites from around the world but mostly the…
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Feeling Harmful
For a full 20 seconds this morning I believed I’d either killed or seriously harmed another human being. I thought I’d hit a motorcyclist. He got up, unhurt, and let me babble my panicked sorries at him. It wasn’t until after a bystander informed me of what had actually happened that I accepted I hadn’t…
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Sense of Place
Sense of place – verisimilitude, remember? – has been a really important thing in my development as a writer. A lot of my writing, especially my poetry, has been about capturing a single moment as accurately as I can, even if it isn’t a moment that actually happened. She’s Charles Bukowski in a negligee but…
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My Mind Library
About a week ago, the copycats and I were discussing our mind palaces. The places we go to think through ideas and solve puzzles. I already wrote about my unhappy place, so I think it’s time to talk about my mind library. I first explored my mind library several years ago, in a poem I…
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Good Things
Etymology People to talk about etymology with Booking something summery to look forward to with the girl of my dreams Paying off my credit card before the bill Writing about failing my driving test four times. Again. Making money from wondering things about social media Writing exercises with Dibbs (Mine are in his responses) Plotting Invoicing…
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