Category: Wonderings
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Biblioperambulation
I don’t know when I started reading while I walked. Probably when I began secondary school and suddenly had the dead time of a familiar route on my hands every day. Not a particularly scenic route, so no need for exalted appreciation of my surroundings: just dead time. In my house, dead time didn’t really…
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Getting Younger
I am regressing. I am doing things that I didn’t do or didn’t do enough when I was a little. Things I couldn’t afford or didn’t have the gumption for as a younger, more worried person. Things like owning a leather coat and going to see The Prodigy on a Monday night* because rave. I…
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Being Read
I’ve been writing online for quite a few years now. In that time I’ve not had very much feedback on what I’ve written. My mam asked me last week if I’ve ever experienced any nasty trolling and I told her my little corner of the internet doesn’t attract enough humans to engender hatred. But there’s…
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What Happened When I Confronted My Cruellest Troll by Lindy West
Great article from Lindy West about the volume of online abuse that female writers face. Although the term ‘trolling’ has been vastly distorted by the media (it used to mean irritating but light-hearted pranking), the darker usage is here to stay and it’s a shame. Read it here.
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