At 115 pages into Italo Calvino’s classic ‘If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller’, I’m struggling to continue and I’m thinking about giving up. It’s not that I haven’t enjoyed what I have read so far, I have, and perhaps it isn’t really the book’s fault at all, but my own newfound difficulties with reading. […]
Tag: Prose
Anyone remember Labyrinth? Of course you do, how could anyone forget David Bowie as the Goblin King Jareth? Labyrinth is a musical, fantasy film which came out in 1986. Jim Henson, George Lucas and Brian Froud were the main masterminds behind the production and many of the characters were played by puppets produced by Jim […]
‘Once Upon A Time’ to ‘Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive’. How and why did story writing change so much? And what can we learn from it? Traditionally, word of mouth was the only way to communicate and share stories, but with the advent of writing implements and machines, stories were recorded […]