Do I Care? : Barchester Towers

I recently finished reading Barchester Towers, the first novel I have read by the nineteenth-century English writer Anthony Trollope. And I had a strange reaction to it. I was intrigued enough, amused enough, to keep reading to the end. And yet at the same time I felt bored by it. Or perhaps more specifically, it Read More…

A New Direction for This Blog

Hello, friends! I’m here because I want to take this blog in a new direction. Let me tell you about it. I have taken a blogging break during the last few years because I have been putting my writing efforts into a novel. That has required a steep learning curve. As part of that, I Read More…

Writing Lessons from My Younger Self

I’ve recently been doing a little creative writing… In fact this was always my first love, but during my postgraduate degree days I’ve channeled that interest into academic writing, which is not as dissimilar as you might think. In revisiting the long trail of half-written fiction from my past, I’ve seen how much my writing Read More…