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How to Journal (and ticket links)
Ticket links for September’s Offline Book Club Events: - Silent Reading: Wednesday 9 September - Silent Reading: Tuesday 15 September - Offline Book Club: Fruit Fly (again) Tuesday 22 September - Silent Reading: Wednesday 30 September FYI: If you have tickets for either of the Good Intentions sessions and can no longer make
Eternal Surprise of the Careless Mind
Memory is a funny, fickle thing. In tech right now, it is especially so. Not only because the cost of the physical hardware to store it has skyrocketed in recent years due to AI driven demand. The more abstract kind has also been put to the test in the trial
Ghost Stories: bibliotherapy, grief, and learning to survive
Death is the last great literary taboo. On a sunny day or a fire-lit night, a book that reminds you that you, or the ones you love, could vanish at any moment is not the natural choice. Only once the loss occurs do people grasp for someone else’s
The old and new of literary plagiarism
T.S. Eliot is misquoted as saying “good writers borrow, great writers steal”. What he actually wrote was: “immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The thin line between plagiarism and ‘drawing
I despise a narrator with a smartphone in their hand
What fiction tells us about the human experience modulated by smartphones. The novel – especially when written in first person – allows insight into someone else’s interiority in a way that other media cannot. Sometimes, readers may have more knowledge of what a character thinks and feels about what is happening
We made the wrong person famous
Who is “we” and how much say do audiences really have on who rises to the top? The universal “we” is a feature in online comments sections that has always confused me. A single, ambiguous word renders the entire audience an aligned monolith; often in direct opposition to the creator
