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    • Film school Beethoven biopic
      • ‘Out of the Labyrinth’ – introduction
      • Production credits etc.
      • Making ‘Out of the Labyrinth’
      • Complete movie, clips, & stills
    • Interviews
    • Awards
  • Books etc
    • ‘GEORGE’ project
    • FIVA: An Adventure That Went Wrong
      • Banff Mountain & Wilderness Literature Award 2012
      • Fiva: rave reviews and online accolades
      • Fiva 1969 and 40 + 44 years on photo albums
      • Return to Store Trolltind 2013
      • ‘Fiva’ website
    • THE PEAK: Past and Present
    • THE CUILLIN: Great Mountain Ridge of Skye
    • LAKELAND: Landscape of Imagination
    • EYES TO THE HILLS: The Mountain Landscape of Britain
    • Interviews
    • Articles
    • Downloadable texts
      • Lectures
      • Reviews
      • Books
      • University dissertation
      • Sample undergrad essay
  • Shining music
    • The Shining music – Introductory note
    • Accolades
    • The Shining 35th anniversary, May 25, 2015
  • Climbing
    • Climbing pix
    • Climbing logbook 1966-98
    • 1967-68 climbing logbook
    • “An Ascent of Bispen”
    • Summiting Store Trolltind 44 years after Fiva epic
    • Complete ‘Fiva’ galleries 1969, 2009 & 2013
  • Stainforths
    • Family history
    • Family tree from C19th onwards
    • Peter Stainforth: paintings & drawings
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On Style and Eloquence

On Style and Eloquence

June 24, 2015
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Having touched on the question of style in my last blog about the elements of writing, I now want to consider it in greater detail….

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On Pedantry versus Euphony

On Pedantry versus Euphony

June 21, 2015
gstain
Writing

I have recently been looking back at some of the books on the craft of writing that I have accrued over the last forty years…

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Writing

Here I talk about the craft of writing and my experiences as an author. Somerset Maugham on writing Thomas Mann on writing Nathaniel Hawthorne on writing Oscar Wilde on writing
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