Following the Money in Jane Austen's Novels
Empire, Enclosure, and Aesthetic Silence in Jane Austen.
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The Newsletter
Here are past issues I have sent to subscribers. I send an issue about once a month to subscribers. It is about developing writing craft, but also about bringing mental models from a range of disciplines to bear on the creative process. About finding mentors, living or not. About language and learning how to learn.
A Conversation with Dramaturg Rosie Kellagher
The twelve questions Dramaturg Rosie Kellagher asks of a script.
The Behaviour Formula
Neuroscience & The Creation of Myth.
Writing through Grief
This post talks about the subjects of bereavement, grief and mourning. If these things have touched your life, please take care when reading.
Digging up Stories
There's a YouTuber I like called Van Neistat. He's one brother of the Neistat Brothers. The other brother is Casey. Casey Neistat.
Here's a link to Van Neistat's YouTube Channel - The Spirited Man. In it he explores his "analog, self-reliant
The Vertigo of Translation
The act of translating a play or a drama induces a sort of vertigo-like feeling, where the number of choices one is presented with seems to create a kind of hall of mirrors effect.
On sitting in cafes thinking of writers.
The book 'Oases' by the late Scottish writer Alastair Reid is probably the book I have given most to people. I met Alastair when I spent three days in New York with himself and my uncle, the late Dr Finlay Macleod, to film a documentary about him and his work.
On Meeting Alastair Reid.
The story of when my uncle, the late Dr Finlay Macleod and I spent three days in New York with the Scottish writer Alastair Reid.