Tag: Creative
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Making a man out of you
Subverting the “army will make a man out of you trope” but make it queer. A Real Life story about being gay in Apartheid South Africa.
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Dont Feed the Trolls
Some thoughts on dealing with dealing with problem people in the digital and real worlds, based on yet more of Austin Kleon’s work
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Agatha Christie, but with Body-hopping and Time-travel
All the structural complexity of a Agatha Christine mystery, mixed with time-travel and body-hopping to produce a gothic tour de force.
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Comments and our tech Overlords
Musing on the utility of website and social comments as a way of engaging with your audience, a reaction to Show Your Work By Austin Kleon
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What Living Fully Really Means
A gorgeously realised exploration of what living fully really means. Set in a world where we follow two young men on their last day of life.
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Building a Following
The best resource I have seen so far for creatives and introverts trying to build a following and get their art known.
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Vibrant World-building
A vibrant and immersive world that reflects the fury and injustices of our modern world back at us.
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Telling our own stories
Book Review: Killer Stories explores how the stories we use to explain our actions can become our worlds.
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Gone with the faeries
Words of the Day is diaphanous. A man contemplates where it all went wrong.
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The Cinnamon-roll Version of Simon Snow
Book Review of Ever After by FT Lukens – A mini chocolate bar of a book, sweet short and forgotten an hour later.