Mark Pawson obituary Other lives: Artist and maker of collectible badges, posters and stickers whose work found homes in the Tate and V&A library collections

My friend Mark Pawson has left us - here’s an account of his brilliance: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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The phases of winter:
- Surviving, just - nice glass of wine after a hard day's work
- Distinctly rundown - lovely cocktail is spirit-raising medicine
- Ill enough to need to drink / too ill to be hungover - portioning whisky carefully
- Health is returning - hello, tequila

Gorgeous banner - good luck ✊🏻

Solidarity to all at the Gdn & Obs.

Oh god me too. Cunts.

FAME!

They look like they… don’t read

£5000 prize + Curtis Brown representation on offer here 👇🏼

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That all said, I’ve been writing for a living in various ways for ~25 years. I’m not really that precious about it. It’s my job. I know that lots of writers feel very differently.

That’s interesting. I haven’t particularly noticed that among my students but perhaps the difference shows in relationships? I’d find anyone needing that level of affirmation about anything quite hard to live with, I think.

I never discuss the details of my writing with them & in the same way we don’t talk about the minutiae of their jobs. I also wonder how interested the OP is in the detail of his wife’s work. Does he pore over her presentations/emails/reports? Listen avidly to accounts of that pitch or case she won?

My wife glazes over when I talk about my writing. How can I come to terms with her indifference? | Ask Philippa Your persona as an author is in the public domain, so perhaps your wife wants to keep the private you to herself

Writing just isn’t interesting to huge swathes of people, is it? I’d say the majority of my (non-pub ind) friends & most of my family haven’t read my books… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/17/my-wife-glazes-over-when-i-talk-about-my-writing-how-can-i-come-to-terms-with-her-indifference

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We love to see it. Too soon to ask to borrow a fiver?

Yes also that!

Love this for her (& literary fiction in general)

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(Urban Dictionary is ridiculous)

No one is judging you for popping a fluffy in public, Lucy

It’s okay Lucy - this is Bluesky. You can admit you’ve accidentally sounded the trouser trumpet

Ha. But I’m glad you’re here. 2010s Twitter is assembling!

The fact that you didn’t start this with ‘It has recently come to my attention…’ is a hate crime

Struggling to finish that book? Good news - you’re not useless, inept and lazy, you just haven’t tried ✨COCA WINE✨

This thread is stupendous 👇🏼

An erotic short story in three acts

Yes, I tend to explain it by ‘chuckling’ the dialogue and asking if that’s what they meant 🤡

I agree. It’s also a common thing I see in beginner’s creative writing. ‘Are you sure?’ she chuckled.’ And so on. Agh!

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