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Luke Edley changed their profile picture 1 year, 9 months ago
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Benign Violation Theory 2 years, 6 months ago
For thousands of years, humanity has pondered what it is that actually makes people laugh. Although there are many styles of humour, no consensus has ever fully been reached regarding the discovery of some magic […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Writers and Depression 2 years, 7 months ago
In my experience, there’s a dark secret most writers share—either they have a history of being depressed at some point in their lives, or they are currently in the midst of battling it. Maybe a dark mood comes and […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris 2 years, 7 months ago
For a workplace fiction novel about cubicle dwellers at an advertising and marketing agency, Then We Came to the End is a surprisingly gratifying and self-aware read, with much to say about the world of middle […]
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Luke Edley changed their profile picture 2 years, 7 months ago
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Finding Time to Write 2 years, 8 months ago
It’s no secret that most writers are in no position to give up their day jobs. For many of us, our dreams start with a hobby we love and enjoy, leading us to quietly pen our stories in the hope that one day w […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 2 years, 8 months ago
Flowers for Algernon is a deeply emotional science fiction novel by Daniel Keyes which places society’s treatment of the disabled under the microscope, all thanks to its clever, high-concept premise. The story i […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Elements of Shakespearean Comedy 2 years, 9 months ago
We’ve all been taught in school how Shakespeare’s plays tend to fall into one of two categories—comedy or tragedy—but sadly it’s never fully appreciated how the bard’s innovations have helped shape the comedy genr […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Darkmans by Nicola Barker 2 years, 9 months ago
Nicola Barker’s seventh novel, Darkmans, is a long, quirky, difficult and meandering read, yet it remains exquisitely written amongst its ambling plot. That’s if you can even accuse it of having a plot, of cou […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, The Meaning of Caricature 2 years, 11 months ago
If you’ve ever had a street portrait done by a cartoonist, you’ll no doubt be familiar with what a caricature is considered to be. Used mainly to describe an amusing drawing where one’s features are exagg […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene 2 years, 11 months ago
A surprisingly light-hearted romp in 1950s pre-communist Cuba, Our Man in Havana is Graham Greene’s humorous spy novel. It’s about a vacuum cleaner salesman called James Wormold who is secretly recruited by MI6 […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Shut-Eye 3 years, 1 month ago
The wires sprouted from Jed’s heart rate monitor, snagging in his chest hairs like a clew of worms. This bugged him, in more ways than one.
Sat on the edge of his bed in a research laboratory in Clodworth G […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 3 years, 1 month ago
Having made his name writing a series of extremely funny travel memoirs, Bill Bryson’s surprising decision to release A Short History of Nearly Everything in 2004 seemed to come out of nowhere. Ostensibly a n […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Thanet Writers Spotlight Dennis Wheatley 3 years, 2 months ago
Dennis Wheatley was born in the South of London to a family of upper-class wine merchants on 8th January 1897. Enjoying a very privileged upbringing, Wheatley was packed off at the age of 8 to a boarding school […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, What is Invective? 3 years, 2 months ago
Invective is an age-old literary technique used by poets, playwrights and authors to lambast or criticise others, using the power of words to offer a window into one’s true feelings about another, often with c […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, Home by Matt Dunn 3 years, 2 months ago
Ever so slightly departing from the ‘boy-meets-girl’ formula of his earlier romantic comedy novels, Home by Matt Dunn (a funny yet bittersweet tale of a Londoner moving back into his childhood home with his age […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, How to Write Humorous Dialogue 3 years, 3 months ago
If you’re a writer who wishes to tell funny stories about your characters, writing humorous dialogue is an unavoidable challenge. Whether or not your work is deemed funny or not will, of course, be a matter of o […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge 3 years, 3 months ago
Published in the autumn of 1974, Beryl Bainbridge’s award-winning black comedy, The Bottle Factory Outing, hones in on the grim realities of working-class life in mid-1970s Britain, offering an eye-opening i […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, The Element of Surprise 3 years, 4 months ago
The importance of surprising your readers should never be forgotten by any aspiring writer. In fact, it should always be considered a vital part of a storyteller’s toolkit. By seeking to confound your audience w […]
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Luke Edley wrote a new post, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 3 years, 4 months ago
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Having sold over 150 million copies worldwide since its release in 1988, it’s been an immovable object on the New Y […]
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