Honestly, the rabbit-holes a single word can take you down. Like bits of grit in my eye (ear?), any unfamiliar coinage I find impossible to resist – especially when a word which begin life as a total fiction, somehow sticks (like ‘chortle’, or ‘meme’); and more especially when they attach themselves (well, find attachment) to […]
Excuse the poor-quality dad-pun, and it’s not a typo. Learning something ‘by rote’ is to tackle it by mechanical or habitual repetition. Sometimes it’s a really good way to drum things in. The reason I can still type that 8 times 8 is 64 without a second thought is that times-tables were taught me in […]
First thing you do when you get into work is check your email, right? I know I do. Studio’s are no different from any other workspace or sector (as far as I can gather) with their digital-signal to noise ratio, but I’ve started to begin my day with anything in the junk folder – as […]
“Quick… and away from the point” Eudora Welty, 1933 Welty, writing to the New Yorker to ask to join the writing staff, captured in half a line how great writing should always transport you from what you think you know to whole other places. Holding attention with just those few words was what (eventually) secured […]
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