Monday Motivation: Of mice and moral conundrums
We’ve just spent three days with friends in a remote village in the Klein Karoo. We were alerted to the plague of fieldmice they’re experiencing when a solitary mouse emerged […]
Monday Motivation: Buttresses and rickety walls
It’s called “argument by authority” and all the best rhetoricians frown on it. A bad argument, they say, is not improved by quoting an authoritative voice in support of it. […]
Monday Motivation: Yum. Green eggs and ham
Does everyone know how Green Eggs and Ham came to be written? I certainly didn’t until I stumbled across a reference to it on the internet. It appears that Dr […]
Writing Secrets: Reading for good writing
Many people tell us that, when they first come to our Creative Writing Course, we ruin reading for them. I usually say they should be so lucky. They’re learning to […]
