I Am Shakespeare And So Can You

Some writers want to use the most straight­for­ward English in their work. So doing, a bur­den is lif­ted from the reader. Other writers struggle to cre­ate quite indi­vidual sen­tences that are fresh and unusual, but at the expense of ease.
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The Situationist

The human being is a pecu­liar creature. While all of its senses, and almost all of its capa­cit­ies, are matched and exceeded by count­less other anim­als, some­thing strange and unim­it­ated lies between the ears of Homo sapi­ens sapi­ens. I speak of noth­ing less than the mind.
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The Letters of Stanley Kubrick

Via Daring Fireball, a col­lec­tion of let­ters from the late film­maker Stanley Kubrick. Cracking stuff.
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Fiona Robyn’s ‘Small Stones: A Year of Moments’

Readers of this blog will be all to famil­iar with my own attempts at flash fic­tion, which I try to keep as ‘flash’ (i.e. short) as pos­sible. Fiona Robyn, how­ever, goes one bet­ter. She goes for the ‘f’ of the ‘flash’ like Linford Christie used to go for the ‘b’ of the ‘bang’.

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