Writing

Where do stories come from?

Philip Pullman on storytelling

The Inky Fool on English place names

Evil laughs and free-riders – how to craft your villain

Sans Forgetica – the true font of all knowledge

Our affinity for stories is deep-rooted

Odysseus and his real-life friends – The Conversation

Don’t say that!! – An official guide to profanity

One space good, two spaces better?

The Sense of Style – Steven Pinker

The Chief Storyteller – @stevecla

A dictionary to go – Cultural Offering

John Perry Barlow on Cassidy

Sad news: John Perry Barlow

Gladstone’s Library – a place to retreat and write?

Stories for powerful presentations – Nicholas Bate

Magicians and neuromarketers – @rogerdooley

The narrative arc described by Kurt Vonnegut

Rock and roll rhetoric: Merry Xmas Everybody

Christmas, Dickens, Desk

You never have to charge a notebook – The Cramped