Category: Wonderings

• May 7, 2014

  Hilarious Spontaneity

  Today I decided to apply for a private members club on a whim. The House of St Barnabas is a not for profit club, with all membership fees going to their Employment Academy, which trains homeless people in key skills and gives them work experience in the club’s restaurant and bar. Wicked, non? You’re supposed…
• May 7, 2014

  The Peculiarities of Anxiety

  This is something I wrote a few months ago when I was just finding my feet in the grown-up world of corporate politics and etiquette. It was a scary time and I was terrified of screwing up. There is an email in my inbox and I can’t read it. Just thinking about it crouching in…
• May 6, 2014

  Speling Things Rong

  A thing I love is intelligent and purposeful misspelling. Kurt Cobain didn’t bother spelling things right but from him, it was subversive and interesting – it was an intimate peek into his chaotic mind. Stephen King uses misspellings to amazing effect. ‘Pet Sematary’ because of the children using it to honour their dead pets; clever…
• May 6, 2014

  Writers on Writing

  “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” Stephen King “All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You…
• May 6, 2014

  Morning Musings

  I was reading A Living Chattel by Anton Chekhov this morning and I was struck by how similar the prose is to Vladimir Nabokov’s. Am I stereotyping The Russians (as a literary body), merely overreaching, or is there something about Russian literature translated to English that gives it a certain tone? It’s very stark, and…