Head of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton.
When I'm not writing, I like to sit doing nothing.
Main thing at the moment is A Writer's Diary on Substack.
| Writer | A Writer's Diary |
| Activist | Writers Rebel |
| Academic | University of Southampton |
WE CAN EITHER HAVE A LIVEABLE PLANET OR BILLIONAIRES. WE CAN’T HAVE BOTH.
The findings of @oxfaminternational’s latest report, released just days ago, are honestly terrifying and infuriating.
This is not accidental. It is the result of an economic system that protects extreme wealth, fuels corporate pollution, and puts profits before people.
It’s time to FLIP THE SCRIPT. Tax extreme wealth. Make polluters pay. Ban private jets and superyachts. Put lives before profits.
Climate deniers, including those in the US Congress, are not people with a different opinion; they are liars.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/climate-deniers-of-the-118th-congress/
Something on Vulnerability.
In the context of -
"You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up."
(Anyone here see Springsteen last week?)
What's your absolute worse noise distraction? What stops you being able to concentrate?
How to write Free Indirect Discourse.
Via George Saunders.
With homework.
Part 1.
https://open.substack.com/pub/awritersdiary/p/on-free-indirect
As a distraction from bigger matters, I've been noticing the oddness of what's right in front of me.
The desktop world.
What can we ever know about our reader?
https://open.substack.com/pub/awritersdiary/p/on-the-reader?r=tmp4e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Should a writer aim to make a reader cry?
Isn't that an illegitimate aim?
I don't think so.
Do you really want 10,000 new novels by your favourite writer?
AI questions, discussed.
Contributions, welcomed.
Greenpeace International
David Ho
