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Scottish author Jim Murdoch discusses writing, his own and other authors, and muses at length about his fascination with the perversity of language. Veering from the nostalgic to the acerbic his blog will amuse anyone with a love of language.
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How to critique
If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything. – My mum (and probably a thousand other mums too) Okay, hands up – no one taught me how to critique but then no one taught me how to write a novel so there.I think the biggest proble...
This post is exempt from criticism
This is not my first go at this post. As you may or may not know my wife proofreads all my blogs before I post them. Normally all she has to fix are typos and "brain farts". Occasionally she'll highlight a sentence or a paragraph where I don't make m...
The Cusp of Something
I don't read much contemporary literature, there are too many books that have stood the test of time that I haven't read and I frankly prefer my authors dead or dying, but every now and then one or two get through. Last year there were two, Ian McEwa...
