In order to get lost in music, it has to be there already. When you create music, you can’t get lost. If you get lost, you simply stop. Because you are in the space before the note. You create it from yourself and then you release it through your body across the instrument and into …
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What makes a good read?
Isn’t that exactly what you want to know as you flick through titles on your phone, or run your finger along the spines of books on the library shelf. If it was just as simple as saying, abc. But it isn’t. And there are plenty of snobs out there who will tell you, that good …
Creativity emerging part 2—Baby talk
I have a memory—which is, after all, only imagination labelled real—of being less than six weeks old. It came to me many years ago in the cradling that is approaching sleep, when we let go the reins of the world and sink into the hidden spaces. Awareness is a soft haze of colours. The darker …
Creativity emerging—part 1
Do you write longhand or on a computer? Or. Do you write in the morning or at night? What is it that the questioner hopes to understand from these questions that I have heard a million times at writer’s festivals and author talks? I groan internally—in fact next time I think I’ll make it audible—at …
Where there’s muck there’s honesty
I saw the film Made in Dagenham – set in 1968 and about the dispute which led to the equal pay act in Britain. It is not the attitudes which take me back – it is the griminess that evokes the era for me. Brick walls, crumbling concrete and a feeling of decay – old …
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