Rock and roll rhetoric: Merry Xmas Everybody
Are you hanging up the stocking on your wall? Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall? Do you ride on down the hillside In a buggy you have made? When you land upon your head Then you’ve been slayed. Merry Xmas Everybody (Holder, Lea), Slade A raucous, joyous Christmas favourite and a […]
Christmas, Dickens, Desk
From the Dickens Museum, situated in Charles Dickens’ London home of 48 Doughty Street, I learn that Dickens had a pet Raven named Grip (actually he had three Grips in succession). The pet was the inspiration for Edgar Allen Poe’s famous poem. I discovered Poe’s Raven through the invaluable Execupundit. Aside from Dickens’ desk, above, […]
You never have to charge a notebook – The Cramped
The Cramped has a nice quote from Richard Branson on the important discipline of making notes: … the key is making writing a welcome habit. But keep a little pad in your back pocket just in case—you never have to charge a notebook. Read the full quote, here.
The power and importance of imagery @TheTimes #Writing
An interesting piece from yesterday’s Times on the power of vivid imagery to engage and influence. Ancient literary critics called this quality enargeia, the ability to instil a scene so powerfully in the reader’s mind that they feel as though they are living through it themselves. Psychologists studying how 402 people responded to classic Japanese haikus […]