Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
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Unpolished words
There are good reasons why your first draft should be bad.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 17 • 1869’
Researching human evolution, human and animal emotions, and sexual selection.
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A brace of raptors
Two close-encounters with murderous birds in as many days.
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A good reason not to write in books
I don’t want Former Me telling me which bits of the book are most noteworthy.
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Anglesey 2023
What we saw on our annual holiday in Anglesey.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 16, part 2 • 1868’
Researching human evolution and expressions, and revising ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 16, part 1 • 1868’
Researching human evolution and expressions.
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Book Review: ‘One Midsummer’s Day’ by Mark Cocker
Swifts and the story of life on earth.
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Book Review: ‘Writing Tools’ by Roy Peter Clark
An excellent collection of writing advice.
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Book review: ‘Affinities’ by Brian Dillon
Exploring our relationships with images.
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‘Lesser’ truth v artistic licentiousness
I don’t buy claims that paintings are more accurate than photographs, and novels more truthful than factual writing.
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Book review: ‘Next to Nature’ by Ronald Blythe
A lifetime in the English countryside.