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Views from the Bike Shed: and a writer's guide to blogging

Views from the Bike Shed: and a writer's guide to blogging

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Mark Charlton's Views from the Bike Shed is a blog that advocates for blogging as a process and form that deserves serious attention. It includes engaging, articulate, and deeply-felt posts, as well as 'Interludes' that give insight into how to blog and why it is such a rich resource in our writerly and human toolbox. It explores how writing from our experience can become an inclusive and authentic means of connecting with readers, allowing them to make their own discoveries.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2023
Publisher: Cinnamon Press


Mark Charlton's Views from the Bike Shed blog is a captivating journey of chance and discovery, shaping the person he has become. In his book, he shares a selection of engaging, articulate, and deeply felt posts from the eponymous blog, as well as charts his praxis as a writer. Charlton advocates for blogging as a process and form that deserves serious attention, showcasing how it changes our writing and opens up unexpected opportunities.

Interspersed between blog posts on life, landscape, objects, and artistic process, there are "Interludes" that provide insight into how to blog and delve into the depths of why blogging is such a rich resource in our writerly and human toolbox. Exploring how writing from our experience can become an inclusive and authentic means of connecting with readers, allowing them to make their own discoveries, Views from the Bike Shed is both practical and vital, offering a meditation on the ways writers can push their own boundaries through this medium.

Mark Charlton's Views from the Bike Shed blog has been an addiction of mine for years. Mark's views are wise, finely expressed, broad-ranging, acutely observed, and scintillatingly intelligent. A published collection is cause for widespread rejoicing. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did the originals.


Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788648042

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