The focus was not so much on viewing the city through a tourist’s lens as on looking at how spaces in the city interacted with the experiences of the authors or, rather, the narrators in their stories.
Read MoreThis is a very clever book. Too clever, in fact, for any one person to fully appreciate I think.
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podcast-ai Screenshot, by Terry Freedman
A Chrome extension called Podcast.ai enables you to convert browser tabs to podcasts. Sometimes.
Read MoreMy reading journey feels like the kind of trek where, exhausted, you make for the brow of the hill just ahead of you, only to discover that an even higher hill lies just beyond.
Read More(Amended) The pages in my copy are marked (in pencil of course) all the way through, to highlight wonderfully-crafted sentences.
Read MoreA search engine I wrote about in 2010 still works, and is still useful.
Read MoreA great stimulus, I find, is photography. I always try and take a digital camera with me wherever I go, or at least my phone.
Read MoreIt was with some foreboding that I opened this book.
Read MoreI’ve never been to Berlin, but I feel like I’ve come to know it through this book.
Read MoreI’m a very private person, and I don’t like sharing things about myself with complete strangers. I don’t even like sharing the fact that I don’t like sharing things.
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quotation marks, by Terry Freedman
If this were true, I’ve wasted a lot of money on literature courses, and there are a lot of Eng Lit teachers and authors making money under false pretences.
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Conversing, by Terry Freedman
Is it rude to comment on blog posts?
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Ping! Now I get it! Terry Freedman having a lightbulb moment about tags and categories. Illustration: Idea lightbulb, by Terry Freedman
While I was walking, or having a swim, or doing my version of a workout in the gym, it all suddenly made sense. Categories! Tags! Of course! (Editor’s voice: enough of the exclamation marks already.)
Read MoreThe poets featured each enjoy a potted biography that places them and their work in the context of the time. Extracts rather than whole poems are presented, and this is both an advantage and a disadvantage.
Read MoreIf you like stories about teenaged angst, and especially female teenaged angst, you will like this book. Well I don’t and I didn’t.
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Graphic by Terry Freedman
What does a typical blog consist of?
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Terrys’ two minute tips, by Terry Freedman
What are the elements of a typical blog post, and why are they useful?
Read MoreFortunately, I don’t often suffer from writer’s block — my problem is more often a lack of time in which to write what I’d like to. But if you are stumped for what to write or, like me, you sometimes wish to publish something without having to spend hours on it, here are some ideas you might wish to consider. They have all worked very well for me.
Read MoreI thought I’d better take a photo of the last remaining hole before that, too, disappeared.
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