Typing In My Notebook

Reviews, personal essays, musings and more

Clare Dodd

November 25, 2013

Getting Excited

Nailed it

Clare Dodd

November 25, 2013

Getting Excited

A few more hours in the day would be great, but it's distance that would help me get a little more writing done.

Clare Dodd

November 10, 2013

Getting Excited

One week, one hand, two stories

Clare Dodd

November 10, 2013

Getting Excited

This week pushed me to the edges of my ability to cope. Luckily I took someone's hand and ended up seeing another story.

Clare Dodd

October 27, 2013

Writing

Happy anniversary

Clare Dodd

October 27, 2013

Writing

Before I hit this notebook's anniversary, I need to raise a glass to a different but not entirely unrelated first birthday.

Clare Dodd

October 20, 2013

Getting Excited, Popular Culture

Writing what is in the air

Clare Dodd

October 20, 2013

Getting Excited, Popular Culture

When you feel something deeply, it is extremely difficult to translate it into words. They can be so isolating. But this week, I have tried.

Clare Dodd

October 13, 2013

Cities

A love requited

Clare Dodd

October 13, 2013

Cities

The tale of a love long unrequited, but for once not only at last returned but done so with more passion and depth than I ever thought possible.

Clare Dodd

October 9, 2013

Cities, Getting Excited

Radio silence

Clare Dodd

October 9, 2013

Cities, Getting Excited

A visual clue as to my radio silence.

Clare Dodd

September 22, 2013

Getting Excited

A few words

Clare Dodd

September 22, 2013

Getting Excited

Why there are only a few words, and why 'talk about lock jaw' have been some of them.

Clare Dodd

September 15, 2013

Cities

A certain time of year

Clare Dodd

September 15, 2013

Cities

A chill. A cosy gloom. The rain. This autumnal turn means a lot more than a handy topic of conversation for this particular Brit.

Clare Dodd

September 8, 2013

Getting Excited, Interesting things

Amazing musical things

Clare Dodd

September 8, 2013

Getting Excited, Interesting things

A varient on my occasional list of interesting things, here is a run down of top talent I've stumbled across on a recent whirlwind musical discovery tour.

Clare Dodd

September 1, 2013

Popular Culture, Writing

Blackberries will always turn to mush: and I'm glad

Clare Dodd

September 1, 2013

Popular Culture, Writing

Seamus Heaney died this week, and with his poem 'Blackberry-Pickings' he has reminded me of the importance of honesty and the danger of influence when experiencing the disappointments of life.

Clare Dodd

August 25, 2013

Popular Culture

The gift you get from oysters

Clare Dodd

August 25, 2013

Popular Culture

Gershwin and his oysters got me thinking about popular culture, artistic merit and the gifts we get from kindly creatives.

Clare Dodd

August 18, 2013

Getting Excited

Competing against a phantom

Clare Dodd

August 18, 2013

Getting Excited

Competing with, and comparing yourself to a phantom takes your focus away from what's right in front of you.

Clare Dodd

August 11, 2013

Feminism, Popular Culture

Blurred lines

Clare Dodd

August 11, 2013

Feminism, Popular Culture

Little illuminations on the culture of female sexuality really do pop up in the most unexpected of places.

Clare Dodd

August 4, 2013

Interesting things, Writing

The current trumps the conditional

Clare Dodd

August 4, 2013

Interesting things, Writing

If we lived perpetually in the conditional, we would never have anything new to say. It's the current that keeps us thinking.

Clare Dodd

July 14, 2013

Feminism, Popular Culture

A varient on normal

Clare Dodd

July 14, 2013

Feminism, Popular Culture

It's all a question of normalising what it is to be on a spectrum.