Essays
Longer pieces on craft, cities and the small details of a considered life.
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On Writing Slowly
A defence of the unhurried draft: why the best sentences usually arrive late, and what a slower practice makes room for.
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A Dispatch for Members: How I Edit
The unglamorous part: how a rough page becomes a finished one, with the marks I use and the order I use them in.
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Gardening Is Editing
Pruning, thinning and the surprising overlap between a small garden and a draft.
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A Short Defence of Boredom
Why I have started leaving a little space in every day for nothing at all.
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Letters I Haven't Sent
On the drafts that taught me more than the ones I mailed.