A very (very!) short story written for my creative writing seminar.
Continue readingBlood on the Bus – The Staunisoe Files
Tag: writing
On Epistemic Anxiety and Craft
A little 9-minute something about:
- Epistemic anxiety: When you fear that there’s a lot more to how you know what you know… that you don’t know;
- Craft: Expectations of what your stories should contain that your audience will love
When the Science in Your Storytelling is Sus
OoOoOoOoOo your genes determine that you will read to the end to learn about OoOoOoOoOo:
- Oh, it’s THIS guy again: Hey, I’ve seen this one… or so the Monomyth tells me.
- A Story of Science-telling: Criti-hyping evolutionary psychology (without the criticism) to explain storytelling;
- My God, Pure Paleoideology: What were we doing until 12,000 years ago? Was it all just evolution?
- On balance: Surprisingly, authors know what they’re doing. We should hear what they have to say.
The Flat Tyre
Read to the end for literary constipations such as:
- Two guys on a motorway discuss quitting their job;
- Britain’s only fully-automated luxury petrol station (powered by AI, of course);
- My commentary: how I feel being back in the saddle.
WTDWA? – An Essay For My St. Andrews Uni Application
This is a VIP (Very Important Post) with some UAE (Understanding, Analysis, and Evaluation) from an SOB (guess) on acronyms.
Continue readingThe Pen Shall Make Ye Fret
If you read to the end, right now, within my lifetime, ‘cos I can’t be doing this for all eternity, you’ll get these three consternations for the price of one:
- Oh, hey, I might get to write for a living;
- Recognising my flaws as a storyteller, and what I can do about ’em;
- Things you can expect on this blog soon…
Fool Me Twice, We Don’t — Err, What Was That First Thing You Said?
Read to the end for good news, such as;
- Brologue is now available on Bluesky…
- …Even though I don’t trust ’em.
Writing As If Already Free
Read to the end for fascinating insights on:
- Brologue, six months in;
- What it means to write as if already free.
The Art of the Job Application Rejection
- Stare at screen;
- Jobhunting kinda makes me not want to hunt jobs;
- Let me write please? As a treat?
Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Fifth Elephant’
