A short course for poets, fiction writers, journalists, journal-keepers, travel writers, essayists, reviewers, and in fact pretty much anyone who puts pen to paper or finger to keyboard. The way to develop your writing, no matter what kind or genre of writer you are, is not to ask “How can I be a better writer?” […]
The latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life in a crowdfunding campaign. If there was one lesson write large and often in the invisible-but-not-unspoken curriculum of my early years, it was Don’t ask for help. At school it was a sign of weakness, even of failure, to ask a teacher for help; […]
The fifth entry in my diary of life behind the scenes in a Kickstarter campaign is about things built, things written, things with meaning. Yesterday, partly as an increasingly necessary distraction from the stress of running a Kickstarter campaign, I sat in on a seminar discussing something about which I know pretty much nothing: […]
Thread 1: My hero, the Australian anthropologist Piers Kelly, has written extensively about cultures, especially in Southeast Asia, that have their own mythic narratives in which they were given writing by a deity, but owing to bad luck, enemy action or their own foolishness, lost it. (There’s a chapter about the topic in my book […]
Announcing a new Endangered Alphabets video feature: Carving of the Week! Since the launch of the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets (www.endangeredalphabets.net), people have been contacting us from all over the world, sending us new scripts that should be included. So each time we add a new script, I’ll carve it, paint it, and talk about […]
