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Thoughts to accompany The Writing Salon, the Behind The Spine podcast, and the Between The Lines residency series.
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What happens offstage (opens the original)
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Some of the most sophisticated storytelling of the twentieth century came from people who were forbidden to do their jobs properly, and thus became more creative than ever.September at the The Writing Salon was about what happens offstage, and this is not the running order. If you were in the room, you have the examples already, and what I want to give you here is the thing that kept surfacing while I was building the session and which I did not have time to say properly on the night. If you wer
The missing piece (opens the original)
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There is a Sherlock Holmes story that Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote.It is called The Giant Rat of Sumatra.Or rather, that is all it is called. Holmes refers to it in passing as “a story for which the world is not yet prepared”. Watson begins to mention the case, Holmes closes the conversation, and Conan Doyle never returns to it. One of Holmes’s most intriguing adventures exists only as a title and a sentence.By almost every rule of modern storytelling, this is dreadful. You don’t introduce a g
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