#15 Autumn autumnal
I spent a month on Sifnos, a Greek island reading, writing, walking, swimming, and cooking. It was restorative. One of the many highlights was learning how...
#14 Twenty-three years later...
In 2001 I read an article in the Guardian about a man who fell to earth. The body of an airplane stowaway, Muhammad Ayaz, was discovered in a supermarket...
#13 Is Status Always Accompanied by Anxiety?
I wrote a piece about status anxiety for the wonderful Australian publication Griffith Review. The quarterly review comes out in both print and digital...
#12 Rainy days and A.I. Anne
Rainy Days and A.I. Anne I went to a conference in Manchester, Storytelling + Machines, last week. It was so cold that all the Europeans were wearing their...
#11 Archive!
For the past couple of years I’ve been assisting the construction of an archive of my digital work. Led by the Bekker scholar Dr Agnieszka Przybyszewska from...
#10 Deathbed Visions and other cheerful things
In my valiant attempt to keep up with what is happening in the broad field of tech giants, AI and LLMs, I read two very interesting posts recently. Thad...
#9 Writing is a Waiting Game
#9 Writing is a Waiting Game Did Amy Winehouse write a song called 'Writing is a Waiting Game'? Maybe not, but it's stuck in my head all the same....
#8 Time Travel as a writing technique?
#8 Time Travel as a writing technique I'm back in a phase of waiting to hear what people think about the latest draft of my novel-in-progress, and I've been...
#7 THE HYPERTRANCE FICTION MATRIX
#7 The HyperTrance Fiction Matrix and other internet things I've been working with Dr Agnieszka Przybyszewska, a scholar from Lodz, Poland, on an archive of...
#6 New news and old news
a newsletter about writing, reading, publishing, and technology #6. Old News and New News I've moved my newsletter from Substack to Buttondown after...
#5. Hallucinating and Memorising
and other tricks of the generative AI trade
#4. New Year, new...
lays head on desk sighing. Really? Again?
#3 Pandemic novels, in my opinion
and the writing pause
#2: I made a promise I'm not going to keep
and other rationalisations
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