5/19/2023 0 Comments The old ways macfarlane![]() ![]() Some are barely recognisable (“Dew ponds, ash frails, thin trails”), and others plain weird (“sunset as spillage junk light of dusk”). ![]() ![]() Tracking back to the earliest entries for what became The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, from 2006, I find hundreds of these “pebbles”. “All I know is that at the very early stage of a book’s development”, wrote Vladimir Nabokov, “I get this urge to gather bits of straw and fluff, and eat pebbles.” Like Nabokov, I’m a pebble-eater and a straw-gatherer: my books begin as gleaned images, fragment-phrases and half-thoughts, scribbled on to file-cards or jotted in journals. The author of The Old Ways discusses some of the problems for any walker-writer such as how to spring surprises along the way, and how not to give your reader blisters.įirst published in the Guardian Book Club, 1 August 2014 ![]()
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