Archive for the ‘Writing/Publishing’ Category
Won’t somebody, please … think of the editors?
I’m in the early stages of editing a book. So this made me chuckle … (I’m not saying I’m better than anybody.) – P Via: Jess SilverGreenberg
The escape of exnzpat, Part 16
An unexpected place Mia drove. Her big, wide car slowed as it turned on Erehwon Street’s narrow lane. She felt the house before she saw it. Its breath was hot, stale, and stank of death. It came to her, carried easily within the porous membranes of the hot summer air. She pushed it away […]
The escape of exnzpat, Part 15
Three of Time and One of Space “Becky, do you know what a Magus is?” I asked as we walked. We crested the little ridge that set the interior of the island apart from its beach and the river. My mood was calm and the strange dusk of the apparent evening helped keep me that […]
Wow. British Wildlife Photography Award 2013
This photo by George Karbus won the overall British Wildlife Photography Award 2013: The beauty of Britain’s wildlife is celebrated as the winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards are announced. This incredible encounter titled ‘In the living room’ was the overall winner and submitted by George Karbus who said: “Water visibility is always very […]
Our American cousins and their approach to the English language
I love words. Here’s the difference between the Oxford ‘British English’ Dictionary entry for the word antithetical* and Oxford’s ‘US English’ entry (arrowed): Quirky! Of course, when I think about it, a word like ‘syllabification‘ simply had to exist — but I’d not encountered it. (Perhaps I’ve led a sheltered life.) – P * a […]
Making up words to keep the patrons entertained?
Saw this visiting family in Wellington. I guess the locals are used to it, but I spluttered. – P
Another stab at big-O objective journalism/media
He’s wonderful, huh? Go and read the whole thing at Maria Popova’s site. I was a fan a Hunter S. Thompson long before I got into journalism — I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas while I was still at high school, back in the days when I was listening to Pink Floyd’s album Meddle […]
‘News co.s aren’t in the business they pretend to be in.’
Here’s a quite smart analysis of the challenge ‘traditional’ news companies face vis-à-vis the internet eating their lunch … Certainly the landscape for those working in ‘da media’ has changed (understatement!) and those who look at journalism as a career are increasingly faced with putting their skills and experience to work feeding the machine (or […]
William Shakespeare’s ‘Star Wars’ {snort}
Watch the trailer:
Misplaced trust (‘I’m telling you this in strictest confidence.’)
Yeah, this happens … JK Rowling on the leak that saw her ‘secret’ pen name John Galbraith leaked to the world (turns out lawyer Chris Gossage, sworn to secrecy, blabbed to his wife’s best friend who tweeted it): Rowling said that “only a tiny number of people knew my pseudonym and it has not been […]
Celebrating cartoonists. Art and politics.
Ah, the power of creating an immersive imaginary world. And yeah, it’s ART alright. No question. Garry Trudeau’s very sharp Doonesbury is still my all-time-favourite for all kinds of reasons. Locally (New Zealand) I like Tom Scott (see this & this) with honourable mentions (gee, I cite them here at The Paepae frequently enough!) to […]
Susan Sontag on writing
Someday (today’s not the day) I will try to express how much I have been inspired by the writing, or better put: the thoughtful reflections of Susan Sontag. She is one of my heroes. I felt lucky to have found her, with her book On Photography. It touched me. Changed my consciousness. Maria Popova, another […]
Neutral Tones
I heard an extract of this poem on Radio 4 recently, and was struck. Wow. It’s not that it resonated with any application or relevance to my own life (well, not presently) … I just admired the power of Hardy’s use of language to convey his melancholy. Here’s Sarah Cookson reading it from a 1992 […]
