Jonathan Cosgrove

Tag: Matt Bell

  • A good year for Good Reads (Aren’t they all?)

    A good year for Good Reads (Aren’t they all?)

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    Happy New Years to all. It’s January 4th and the first working day for many in the good old République d’Irlande so, naturally, I’m thinking about “goals” and specifically for this post, reading goals… Normally, I use Goodreads to track my books however I find it invigorates a rat race of ‘HOW MANY BOOKS CAN…

  • quality doesn’t matter.

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    Matt Bell talking to my very soul this morning.

  • Someone always says it better…

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    After my post yesterday I got some of my favourite regular e-mail this year – my monthly writing exercise from Matt Bell (If you haven’t signed up you’re missing out.) This month he wrote about Choice and Complicity. It was a fascinating read and the subject matter, though difficult to fully execute in prose, is…

  • In-Sentence Suspense

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    This is from the first exercise Matt Bell has posted on his “Writing Exercises” emails about creating an “in-sentence” suspension. To briefly, and poorly, explain it’s about creating a simple sentence and then delaying the ending by using prepositions but you can also use a whole slew of other techniques. I realise I’m not explaining…