I spent the summer of '82 as a trainee at the National Coal Board. Three thousand feet underground at Grimethorpe Colliery. Riding coal conveyor belts face-down. Shoveling slag. Wearing a bright yellow hard hat in a sea of white.

It was a world already disappearing, though none of us knew it yet. Two years later, the miners' strikes would begin. By 2015, every pit in Britain had closed.

I've spent forty years in the games industry, and this summer had nothing to do with that. Except, perhaps, for my first job porting a little game called Manic Miner. But that's a story for another chapter.

Chapter 3 of my serialized memoir is now live. Down t'pit."

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-3-down-tpit

#GameDev #RetroGaming #Memoir #Yorkshire #Barnsley #CoalMining

Need a Little Tenderness in Your Writing? Let Music Open the Floodgates

Melodic memory can crack even hardened shells around feeling Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/need-a-little-tenderness-in-your-writing-let-music-open-the-floodgates-d5fa47c3898

#music #association #creativity #memoir #inspiration

adopting memory orphans

https://annewalk.me/adopting-memory-orphans/

#Reading Atwood's too long, too detailed #memoir Book of Lives. Still, she is a sharp, funny woman at 87 years, a #feminist, and was/is a central figure in the rise and fall of #Canada's #literary and cultural world. I don't love her #books but admire her tenacity, persistence and fearlessness. This memoir is full of what Atwood calls 'life lessons' and 'trigger warnings' - be prepared to LOL.

#gender #bookstodon

A reminiscence: Watching J. R. R. Tolkien summoning Henry.

#Tolkien #Memoir #Oxford #Merton #post

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/writing-2/2026/03/day-i-saw-tolkien-summon-henry

A reminiscence: Watching J. R. R. Tolkien summoning Henry.

#Tolkien #Memoir #Oxford #Merton

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/writing-2/2026/03/day-i-saw-tolkien-summon-henry

Strange Beauty: On Translating Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations”

Author and translator Aaron Poochigian shares what inspired him to translate Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" for a new audience.
The post Strange Beauty: On Translating Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations” appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/strange-beauty-on-translating-marcus-aureluis-meditations

#PersonalWriting #WriteBetterNonfiction #History #memoir #translation