Writing the future
The truth in dystopian fiction comes from hard facts combined with imagination and creativity - just like good business writing. Read our top five articles on the genre. From Thomas More’s Utopia and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, through to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, via Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and countless other tales of worlds not so far away from our own, there are many
Science fiction, science fact
An extended blog discussing communication,connectivity, and where tech is taking us next. One particular strand of subject matter has recently crash-landed into my field of vision from several different directions. At the beginning of October, I posted a short blog piece for flex storytellers, musing on how companies communicate with their staff. This included something on the importance of considering the different workplace expectations of those who have grown up with mobil
flex team stories: Treby
flex storyteller and journalist Treby on writing, family, home, and the privilege of being able to step into the lives of others. No ordinary days. I wake early and drink coffee and spend too long fudging around. Today started with an editor’s request for a photo to illustrate a piece I’ve written about diaries and attic secrets. I’ve spent most of the morning in the shed with socks and an old white dressing gown on, trying to track down an image of my maverick great aunt. Sh
Annie Proulx, inspiration
Today, Annie Proulx has been named as the latest recipient of one of the highest honours in US fiction, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and praised for her “deep reverence for the beauty and complexities of rural America”. You can read about this latest award here. Annie Proulx describes herself as a ‘digger of the world,’ going on to say, ‘a whole set of metaphorical shovels is part of my tool collection,’ in her article 'Inspiration? Head Down
