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Newsletter No. 15: Semi-immersed
on writing
Book review: ‘The Sense of Style’ by Steven Pinker
The thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century.
Using Scrivener as an Articles Register
How I use the Scrivener writing app to gather and organise a mass of vague ideas for future articles.
Bacon and X
Not wishing to boast, but Richard Carter didn't get C-minuses—and he certainly didn't get SEE MEs.
Keep a writing journal
…The best writing advice I ever received.
Sebald’s TV listing
When you enter into Sebald’s universe, it seems to me, you have to play along.
Dispensing with formalities
I've decided I need to make my book a little less formal.
The power of the anecdote
On the effectiveness of anecdotes and understatement in conveying catastrophic events.