If you’re ‘a name’ - a politician, a sports person, an actor or media personality - you might do so in order to entertain, set the record straight, earn money. And you do so because you know people will be interested. But what about everyday folk with their ‘normal’ lives - though every life is … Continue reading Why do ‘ordinary people’ write memoirs?
Category: Writing
“Stories and Texts for Nothing”
The most remarkable thing about Samuel Beckett's Stories and Texts for Nothing is the percentage of the short 'nothing texts' which prefigure or overlap Waiting for Godot. Even to the extent of remarkably similar - if not repeated - phrases. Not surprising really given that they were all written around the same time, 1945-1950. There … Continue reading “Stories and Texts for Nothing”
Digest of this week’s Substack activity
Here is a summary of my activity on Substack this week. Click on any of the images to be taken to the post concerned. Free Preview Free Preview FREE FREE Free Preview FREE
Free subscription anyone?
I would like to offer my website subscribers a free month's subscription to my Substack site. However, in order to do so I need to be confident that you have accepted receiving emails from me. I'm pretty sure you have as you'll get an email every time I put out a post like this one! … Continue reading Free subscription anyone?
This week’s recent Substack activity…
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New content for you on my Substack site!
Having spent the best part of the last two days shaping my Substack site and uploading its initial content, I thought I would let you know what's there - and what won't be here... A section dedicated to works-in-progress. The first entry here introduces a photography/poetry collaboration I've started to work on, and includes the … Continue reading New content for you on my Substack site!
Come on over to Substack!
I'm beginning my Substack journey! Please come on over! https://open.substack.com/pub/iangouge/p/writing-is-a-lonely-business?r=2wlvty&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I was curious, so I looked…
My website has had: nearly 7,000 views around 3,000 'likes' nearly 4,000 visitors and I have written 1,008 posts So a simple 'Thank You' to all those who have contributed to those numbers! Note: sculpture Seated Man II by Elizabeth Frink, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
Putting pen to paper – w/c 16th October
Time to look back / forward. How did I get on last week? Meetings and Events - host Derby Stanza; YES attend Lincoln Creative Writers' meeting. YES Writing projects - start drafting a new short story; YES continue working on Bound; YES work on Character profiles and timelines for the possible futuristic novel; NO recording … Continue reading Putting pen to paper – w/c 16th October
New podcast episode!
I have just published a new episode on my Walking Thru Fire podcast. I am intending to read all of the poems from my collection Not the sonnets; in this episode I read sonnets 15 thru 21. Walking Thru Fire is available on all good podcast services: Audible, Spotify, Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, Deezer etc.
Ian Gouge - Writer 