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New Starts

So, I’ve now moved house and just getting settled. Thankfully, I shall be back to writing and blogging soon. In the meantime, why don’t you keep yourself busy reading one of my books? 😉 Stay safe, Kit x

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October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 By Kit Derrick

Funk

This might be the last post for a little while, as to be perfectly frank, I’m in a total writing funk at the minute. That point where you ask why you bother, and question everything you did and its value. I’m sure in the future …

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Hope is a Six Letter Word, Man in the Bath, Novel, Writing ProcessJuly 4, 2024July 4, 2024 By Kit Derrick

Ben Jonson was Malvolio – The paper I never wrote

What follows is perhaps the laziest of all DIY academic articles. Let me take you back twenty off years, to when the internet was in its infancy, and ‘book-learning’ was done the old fashioned way, and note-taking was done the same way, with a pen …

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Jonson, Malvolio, ShakespeareJune 19, 2024June 19, 2024 By Kit Derrick

Current Projects

So, a reminder (to me as well as you) of the current list of works in progress, though I do of course have half a dozen others at the pre-10,000 words stage, and a complete draft of one I wrote in the nineties. And I …

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Novel, WritingJune 9, 2024June 9, 2024 By Kit Derrick

What to do next (grumble)?

So I’m back in that author funk again (excuse the moments of self pity). I’ve created several novels in the last five years, and as my own harshest critical, a number of them aren’t half-bad, and are at least equal to many on the market, …

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June 2, 2024June 2, 2024 By Kit Derrick

Reuben Reuben revisited

Following on from my rewatch of Reuben Reuben, I thought I’d post another short blog, as I’ve been presenting a re-evaluation of Dylan Thomas recently. I also introduced a friend, being slightly apprehensive, as you are when you share something you love with someone else, …

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Dylan Thomas, Reuben ReubenMay 26, 2024May 26, 2024 By Kit Derrick

Update

Its been an age since I posted, I know. Busy busy with work, writing and reading but I just wanted to re-assure you all I’m still here. I currently have half a dozen projects on the go and my main issue is that I keep …

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Writing ProcessMay 24, 2024May 24, 2024 By Kit Derrick

Time to re-evaluate Dylan Thomas – Image

Dylan Thomas is arguably as well known for his image as for his writing, and that’s a real shame. Not least because the image is based on untruths and misconceptions, and on outright lies, although on the flipside, this public persona means that he has …

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Dylan, Dylan Thomas, PoetryMarch 31, 2024March 31, 2024 By Kit Derrick

Insignificance 7

I recently read the best-selling Yellowface, by R.F.Kuang, and have to say that I enjoyed it and found it extremely readable, but with my cynical hat on (the stylish one with the purple feather) I can’t help wondering whether it was constructed as the ultimate …

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Writing ProcessMarch 17, 2024March 17, 2024 By Kit Derrick

Look, Listen… A Dylan Thomas Legacy

I’ve been thinking about the poet Dylan Thomas recently so something a bit different today. Thinking about Thomas isn’t totally random, as I’ve studied and taught on him before, but in addition to thinking it may be time for a re-evaluation of lots of elements …

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Dylan Thomas, Under Milk WoodMarch 3, 2024March 3, 2024 By Kit Derrick

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