experiment
Litotes, pronounced lie-toe-tease, is a literary technique whereby you express things in a negative formulation. What would it look like if a whole story was written in this fashion?
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Read MoreThis is the usual way of doing things. Someone writes a book, or a poem or whatever. Then (with a bit of luck) someone reviews it.
A fellow writer, Nathan, and I decided to do it the other way around. He wrote a review of something I hadn’t written yet. Then I wrote it!
Read MoreI’ve been taking a short and very bland story and rewriting it in different styles. This time I’ve chosen cockney (defined as someone born within the sound of Bow bells, in other words a true working class Londoner) rhyming slang.
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The clothes I wear when carrying out an experiment. Picture: Scientist, by Terry Freedman
An account of my experimentation with an Oulipo technique called “acronymic poetry”.
Read MoreAn experiment was carried out to determine whether or not the Image Block in the Squarespace Editor would accept an animated gif rather than a static jpg or png image.
Read MoreThis article was written in January 2019. I wanted to write a narrative about one of our cats, but using a different time structure. You’ll see what I mean when you read it.
Read MoreUpdated! Now includes an audio version! I’ve been trying out an application which lets you create an audio version of an article. Here are some early results.
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