A 20-minute long haul. Strap in for:
- Squirrels!
- Cybernetics!
- A man with a beard!
- Neoliberalism!
- TTLY: Old posts.
Dan Davies’ ‘The Unaccountability Machine
Author Archives: bm
I Don’t Like Backlogs, Actually
A six minute ramble:
- Backlogs are Not Antilibraries: I am not humbled by them, I am threatened;
- Backlogs are Eerie: The intentionality in here is making my hair stand on end…
- TTLY…: Vintage posts.
Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel” (and other stories)
- TTLY…: Vintage posts.
Terry Pratchett’s ‘A Blink of the Screen’
A little 10 minute review of ‘A Blink of the Screen,’ with highlights:
- There’s No Fool Like an Old Fool in an English Queue: English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish; all queues on this isle of ours are nightmares;
- Twenty Pence, With Envelope and Seasonal Greeting: the Christmas of 1843 was a weird ‘un;
- Theatre of Cruelty: That’s the way to do it!;
- The Sea and Little Fishes: Headology 101.
- TTLY…: Vintage posts
Some Ramblings on Form in Writing
A ten-minute ramble on making sense on form… and function? Maybe? As a treat?
- TTLY…: Vintage posts.
Explaining Fantasy to Mum(s?)
A 14-minute nosedive:
- Mum – Here Be No Dragons: What’s been happening since her last fantasy escapade;
- Wyrd Sisters’ Theatre Scene: The dialectic of Esme Weatherwax;
- Simulacra and Simluation – Or, “The Part of This Post That Mum Will Read on Holiday;”
- An Exercise Bike for the Mind: What I gave her for Mother’s Day.
Mnemonics, Divination, and the Return of the Secret Strings
The secret strings are the means by which all is revealed…
- Microfiction, as prompts;
- Why writing tools like tarot feel a bit like Michael Rosen’s secret strings game…
- TTLY: My old posts.
The Light King’s Tale – The Right to Krei
The second short story from Boardmier, my fantasy world. My submission for my first Writing Prose 2 assignment at St. Andrews University.
CONTENT WARNING: verbal abuse, death, trauma.
Continue readingGet These (Authorial) Voices Out Of My Head
A little seven minute aperitif on the voices at an author’s disposal when writing. Also, satire.
Continue reading(BoI) Repentance+ Made the Apollyons Interesting
Brief, three-minute comments on the buffs Repentance+ gave to the Apollyons. An apology is long overdue.
- TTLY: Old posts.