You know the Kevin Bacon game – think of a famous actor or actress (probably film-related, but not exclusively). How many links does it take until you connect them with Kevin Bacon? Oracleofbacon.org can help or you can play it as a party game for film aficionados. (Yes, you can tell your boss it’s research, …
Category archives: Writing
Coming ready or not
The run of bright sunny mornings has stopped, for now. So much easier to be inspired when the day is bright, no? No wonder they put Silicon Valley and Pixar and all of those creative industries in sunny places. Without all those lovely rays, we might have less beautiful computers and middling animated films. I …
Face up
You know what they say when you’re thinking about doing something, but don’t know if you’ll do it? Tell someone. So I did. I told Dan there wasn’t really a reason for me not to write. So I need to keep going. I don’t quite know how much, how often, but I know that I …
Art – or craft?
Yesterday’s post was one where I surprised myself through writing. That’s generally a good thing. We know that writing can help clear our heads, but sometimes it’s good to get the proof. Particularly when we’re discovering something along the way. What is a writer anyway? Someone who devotes a lot of time to writing, I …
Journeys, and coming home
Recently, I had occasion to reinhabit some of my previous ‘worlds’, through chatting to different people at an event. Ones that currently feel very distant from life just now, but I realised I remembered them well enough when I got talking. Linguistics world. My year learning about nationalism. My almost-decade of full-time officer worker life. …