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The vanity and banality of the Author Online
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How to stop being an unpublished virgin in five easy steps
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Please stop translating like this
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On the futility of writing
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The hatred of fiction
Drone shots, artifice, and the inherent phoniness of make-believe
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Faithfulness in translation
Some thoughts after PEN America's Translation Manifesto 2023
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Every writer should edit a magazine (at least for a year)
On Roland Camberton’s Scamp
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Writing visually
Part 1: the present tense in narration
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Fogwill
One of the best writers you never heard about
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Spam
“As Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from uneasy dreams he found his brain had transformed into a tin of SPAM.” — Franz Kafka, Spam The cat alarm went…
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Why do I write?
And why do you write? And why do we all write? And so on.
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The character as a composite entity
Or how to write characters that will make your mum proud
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Metrics don't write books
Self-promotion in the age of self-promotion
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