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Why Orwellian selfishness matters to me

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm have long been heralded for their prescient storylines and earned the writer a reputation as one of the greatest in the English language. And it didn’t stop there. In between the two, in 1946, he wrote an essay entitled Why I Write, which with classic Orwellian insight described [...]

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Put the emphasis back on creating, where it belongs

I recently published a novel I’ve had kicking around for the best part of a year, as an Amazon Kindle ebook, and in the process I’ve learned something important about how easily we can allow aspects of a project to turn into monsters, obscuring the actual creative work that matters. I’m not going to drone [...]

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