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Category Archives: Brilliant writers
Searching for the Literary Grail
David Lodge’s novel “Small World” has been variously described as a “campus novel”, a clever piece of “critifiction” (a combination of literary theory and practice) and an example of “metafiction”, a literary technique which self-consciously draws attention to the fact … Continue reading
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Behind a Bush with Nietzsche
In his famous essay “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”, Nietzsche proposed the metaphoric scenario “when someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there … Continue reading
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Writers’ Week Wrap-Up
My Writers Week experience was, as noted previously, my first but it certainly won’t be my last. What I saw of it I loved. Regrettably I only managed four sessions out of a huge array of many more, but the … Continue reading
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I wish I’d said it
At the recent Nonfictionow 2012 Conference I attended in Melbourne, a well known American writer, David Shields, used this quotation in his presentation. He was attempting to illustrate his purpose in writing his book “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto”, a bestselling … Continue reading
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Welcome to the new and improved Annals of Annabelle
For those of you who followed the original Annals, this is the next stage of the journey of Annabelle, the aspiring writer, and will be more strongly focused on my struggles up the ladder of creativity, writing wise. To date … Continue reading
The All New Annals of Annabelle 