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Monica Carroll

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What makes no difference?

by Monica Carroll on 30/09/201927/09/2019

Can you miss the boat on writing? No.

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Ancient Rome, Time, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

A blue tailed coat, yellow waist-coat and trousers with high boots

by Monica Carroll on 23/09/201909/09/2019

What do you think of Werther? No matter what you think, by page’s end you will know him.

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Fiction, Goethe, Pain, Writer, Writing

Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen

by Monica Carroll on 16/09/201908/09/2019

What is the one thing you can do that ties it all together?

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Courage, Nietzsche, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

Speechless yearning in Lucretius

by Monica Carroll on 09/09/201908/09/2019

Want it. Write it. Never settle.

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Ancient Rome, Desire, Lucretius, Words, Writing

Asking after the oblique mystique

by Monica Carroll on 02/09/201931/08/2019

Is our writing always in the last place we never look?

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Barthes, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

End of the World

by Monica Carroll on 26/08/201925/08/2019

If the end is nigh, why not write it out?

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Ancient Greek Philosophers, Dictionary, Time, Voltaire, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

Has this ever happened to anyone you know?

by Monica Carroll on 12/08/201911/08/2019

It’s never too late to help a poet in trouble. Reach out. Make contact. Save them from themselves.

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Fiction, Nabokov, Philosophy, Poetry, Writer's block, Writing

Παραθαρσύνω: embolden and encourage

by Monica Carroll on 05/08/201931/07/2019

Are you reading your tactics book hard enough?

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Ancient Greek Philosophers, Courage, Philosophy, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

Poetry is a controlled refinement of sobbing

by Monica Carroll on 29/07/201923/07/2019

Do you cry? Or weep? Or sob?

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Pain, Poetry, Value, Writer, Writing

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