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Showing posts with label Robert Graves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Graves. Show all posts

Friday, 20 May 2011

An old fashioned ghost story

I'm trying to write one of these as a nice surprise for the choir blog. Think it may take me a few weeks. I'm basing it on the style of Rudyard Kipling and Robert Graves so it's coming out with a fake 'olde' style, and I'm enjoying it so far. But as usual I have no plot. I really acquire get a better approach to plotting. Maybe I'll do a short story writing course at some point to get myself on the ball in this respect.

Thursday, 26 August 2010

Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep (2010)

Listening to NM's new album ... not sure what I think of it yet. It's a long one. Twenty-six tracks, I'm only four in. A celebration of writers and writing. I liked the track 'Vain and Careless' which Fiona Talkington played on Late Junction. It's a setting of a Robert Graves piece. I'm a big fan of Graves however unsettling he may be at times ...