At a crossroads career-wise, and casting about for inspiration... at the very back of my mind I would like to write, and have found inspiration in fanfics I've been reading recently - but unfortunately it's going to take a while to settle down to it. I've been thinking that a fanfic would be a very good exercise to do and a good starting point for ( Read more... )

Just heard this on the radio: how can the arts be regarded as elitist when a season ticket to a premier league football game costs so much and art galleries are free? Indeed.

Am reading Byatt's The Children's Book, and am SO tired of fairies. I got fed up with the fairy tale in Possession too, I'm afraid, though I loved the book otherwise. I just feel there's a limit to this business of exploring the metaphors; it either seems so obvious, or else sometimes they don't have a link at all to the themes of the novel ( Read more... )