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round 7, poll 7
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which cover do you like best?
dinotopia a land apart from time by james gurney
WADERS by Andrew Motion
remember, you're voting for the cover, not the author or the book!
A Writer on Writing: Andrew Motion
Decide when in the day (or night) it best suits you to write, and organise your life accordingly.
Think with your senses as well as your brain.
Honour the miraculousness of the ordinary.
Lock different characters/elements in a room and tell them to get on.
Remember there is no such thing as nonsense.
Bear in mind Wilde's dictum that “only mediocrities develop"— and challenge it.
Let your work stand before deciding whether or not to serve.
Think big and stay particular.
Write for tomorrow, not for today.
Work hard.
Source
Andrew Motion, Holy Island (in ‘The Customs House’, Faber 2012)
Second Sight - Andrew Motion
Just a heads up that Audible’s full cast version of “Treasure Island” (by Robert Louis Stevenson) stars Catherine Tate as Mrs Hawkins, and LLC Dreamscape Media’s audiobook of “Silver: Return to Treasure Island” (by Andrew Motion) is narrated by David Tennant, so you can now indulge in 17 hours 56 minutes of Tatennant whispering in your ears if you so desire...
Buy Treasure Island on Audible
Buy Silver: Return To Treasure Island on Amazon (UK)
I liked the inwardness of poetry, and the sense that it elicited a personal opinion which, provided I paid attention to the signposts in the lines I was reading, couldn’t be ‘wrong’ in the way that I was invariably ‘wrong’ in mathematics and other subjects. I liked the dainty game of poetic forms. I liked the wildness of throwing over these forms. I liked the unashamed way that poetry addressed itself to and expressed strong feelings. I liked the music and the dance and the play and the certainty that it made sense – but not in the way that an article in the newspaper made sense. I liked it for fitting its music to the beauty or the barbarity of its subjects. And I liked it for being unpopular.
Andrew Motion, from “Poetry in the Beginning” published in Granta
Writing Tip of the Week
"Decide when in the day (or night) it best suits you to write, and organize your life accordingly." - Andrew Motion
May 1st: Dessert island
Andrew Motion wrote a follow-up to R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
