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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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  • A dung beetle's guide to the universe

    Posted on Thursday November 1st, 2007 at 04:12 in tags, douglas adams, kafka, identity writing

    One of the things that has concerned me for a while is the fact that very little of my work is easily classifiable. It certainly isn’t mainstream, but neither does it fit neatly into the big genres of, say, science fiction or crime fiction or even ...

  • And your point is, caller?

    Posted on Monday October 22nd, 2007 at 03:30 in grief, identity writing

    The following was, for a long time, the opening paragraph to my fifth novel. I clung on to it for dear life but it simply refused to fit with the tone of the book. I had to scrap it – along with the next 9830 words. Ouch! The thing is, I still like...

  • A question of identity

    Posted on Friday September 21st, 2007 at 07:42 in identity writing

    Identity is a big thing. I’m not sure if it’s more of an issue for a writer than an actor for example but then I’ve no idea what an actor feels. I do get the desire to want to be someone else because I’ve never been especially happy with the ...