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Writing tagged: ‘factual writing’

‘Orwell’s Roses’ by Rebecca Solnit

Book review: ‘Orwell’s Roses‘ by Rebecca Solnit

Pleasure, truth, and roses.

Published 17-Oct-2022
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Culture, Essays, People Tags: factual writing, George Orwell, Rebecca Solnit, reviews
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The slippery slope of minor embellishments

Artistic licence in factual writing doesn’t include making stuff up.

Published 26-Jun-2022
Filed under: Writing Tags: factual writing, on writing
Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre

The gaping void between fact and fiction

Fact and fiction are discrete things, not parts of a continuum.

Published 17-Jun-2022
Filed under: Writing Tags: factual writing, fiction, on writing, photography, W.G. Sebald
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Limitations of the blog format

For some time now, I’ve been growing increasingly conscious of the limitations of the blog format in catering for the provisional nature of factual writing.

Published 30-Jan-2022
Filed under: Writing Tags: factual writing, note-making, Obsidian app

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