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Good beginnings: the best of Saki
Posted: 23/06/11 10:49 |
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I have just re-read ‘The Lumber Room’, a short story by the former Burma police officer H H Munro, who wrote under the name of Saki. More than 30 years after having the story read aloud to me when I was 15 years old, its language and tone are still vividly familiar, even though until […]
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Writing a five fingered exercise
Posted: 29/03/11 01:40 |
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When I was a small child, just starting school, my favorite moment in each day was the one, after we’d finished our tea, when my father went into the front room. He’d say to me, ‘don’t pull the curtains and don’t switch on the light.’ Then he’d sit at his piano in the last of the […]
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Nina Milton
Posted: 27/05/10 08:44 |
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OCA Creative Writing tutor Nina Milton talks about finding your voice. Paul Vincent and Gareth Dent discuss post-production.
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