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		<title>The writer&#8217;s necessary (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things it takes to be a writer is courage.  Another is a whip and a shrug, the whip for getting the lions of ambiguity – at least seven of them, according to William Empson’s famous taxonomy – up on their stools and behaving nicely, the shrug for when it doesn’t quite go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=5229&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The writer&#8217;s necessary (1)</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/08/27/the-writers-necessary-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it take to be a writer? Many writers would say “courage.”  But what do we mean when we say courage in this context?  Courage, and other conditions of being a writer, will be the topic of this new series. Look at the question again.  What does it take to be a writer?  It’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=5186&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please don&#8217;t bore us</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/08/17/please-dont-bore-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, yeah, no time to think. Gimme gimme now! Thumbs up, thumbs down. Should I buy it or should I not? These appear to be the essential frames for modern criticism to function in today. Just serve the ever-shrinking moment and get the hell out of the way of the pleasure stampede. And please don’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=5099&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing vs Blogging</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/08/15/writing-vs-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s just struck me.  Two years of blogging now, and this morning I finally got why it is that blogging still mystifies and wrongfoots me. Because I still think of it as writing. Sure, I make a few concessions to the medium – short paragraphs, fewer qualifications, a single line here and there – but, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=5055&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An exceedingly interesting man: Quotes from July</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July, my father died and I discovered how much words matter and how little.  They were inadequate to so much of what was required.  To comfort my father and give him heart as he contemplated what was ahead; to give my mother courage, and my siblings, companionship; and to honour him at his funeral. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=5028&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fairytales for the 21st century: Quotes from June</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/07/12/fairytales-for-the-21st-century-quotes-from-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, I read two fairytales for the men and women of the early 21st century: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire, the first two instalments of Stieg Larsson&#8217;s Millennium trilogy. Larsson, following only a marginally more sophisticated &#8220;write-by-numbers&#8221; syllabus than the one Dan Brown used, gives us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=4942&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diary of a Nobody</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/06/18/diary-of-a-nobody/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s not another blog.  It&#8217;s the book written in 1892 by the London brothers, George and Weedon Grossmith who aspired in their youth to be a barrister and a portrait painter respectively, but &#8230; became professional comedians. It&#8217;s also the perfect riposte to the Kindle and the iPad which I knew must exist somewhere. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=4634&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures on the Nile with Gustave and Florence</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/05/21/adventure-on-the-nile-with-gustave-and-florence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 04:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two unlikely bedfellows share a boat down the Nile in 1849: one, the very laddish Gustave Flaubert, setting out on what becomes a tour of Egyptian brothels; the other, Florence Nightingale, searching for a clue about where her future lies.  Within seven years, both will be famous. ***** How delicious!  Not only was Flaubert sailing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=4397&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Women Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going through some old notes the other day I found a copy of the parable of Gawain and the Lady Ragnell.  I first read this story six years ago and each time I come across it – as time passes and my understanding of my womanhood develops &#8212; I get something afresh.  And each time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=3751&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Germaine and The Monthly</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until last week I thought The Monthly benign, mostly harmless, occasionally stimulating. Sure, it published articles by male writers over articles by female writers in a ratio of 4:1, and had a tendency towards husband-and-wife writing sinecures.  But if it wasn’t ideal, it wasn’t uncommon either (especially as some of my readers and me discovered when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&amp;blog=4537927&amp;post=3674&amp;subd=solidgoldcreativity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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