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Unusual creativity tools: the I Ching for writers

Will 30 August, 2018 Leave a Comment

I’m running my second workshop at the Nottingham Writers Studio on the I Ching as a tool for writers. No experience necessary. Just come along with an open mind to see how this, the oldest and most curious of all books, can be put to …

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Unusual creativity tools: the I Ching for writers

Will 30 August, 2018 News Leave a Comment

This is for all of you lovers of odd tales, Oulipians, wannabe diviners and China buffs out there. I’m very pleased to be doing an event on the I Ching for writers at the Nottingham Writers Studio this October. There’s a link to the event …

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Chance Pieces: A Collection of Tales from the I Ching

Will 5 August, 2018 News 1 Comment

A couple of days ago, the lovely people at Aeon magazine re-shared my long essay on the Yijing or the Chinese Book of Changes, and since then I’ve had a few people getting in touch to ask if the book ever made it out into the …

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A Yijing Story

Will 21 June, 2018 News Leave a Comment

For visitors who don’t follow my Wayward Philosophy blog, I’ve just posted the text of my paper (and story!) from the World Yijing Summit Forum last month, accompanied by Chinese translation. There’s a bit of context, followed by a story about the great culture hero …

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Conference Confessions from Wuxi

Will 9 June, 2018 News Leave a Comment

For those of you who want to know what I’ve been up to in Wuxi, China, I’ve written an extended blog post over on my philosophy blog, WaywardPhilosophy.com. Here’s an extract: I try to picture it. I am standing in front of five hundred scholars, …

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Coffee and Divination

Will 4 June, 2018 News Leave a Comment

I’m back in China for a brief visit, to attend the Third World Yijing Summit Forum in the city of Wuxi. It is the second time I have attended the forum. The last one was a curious affair, a melange of scholars, geomancers, diviners, financial …

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Chance Pieces on Creative Transformations Asia Blog

Will 27 March, 2016 review Leave a Comment

A few weeks back Michael Keane, who is a Professor of Chinese Media at Curtin University and who runs the Digital China Lab, wrote a very generous review of my Sixty-Four Chance Pieces over on the Creative Transformations Asia blog. Here’s an extract. There is …

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Making Books, Making Ourselves

Will 18 March, 2015 News Leave a Comment

A couple of days ago I arrived in Beijing, and I hit the ground running, with two events yesterday — a school visit and a novel-writing workshop – and three events today. So there’s not much time in between the blog. But I thought I’d post …

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Sixty-Four Chance Pieces: Machines, Mathematics, Organs and Pandas

Will 25 February, 2015 Snippets Leave a Comment

I’ve just about finished the proofs for Sixty-Four Chance Pieces, my I Ching-based novel-of-sorts, ready to send off to Earnshaw Books. All being well, I’ll be launching the book in a few weeks at the Beijing Bookworm book festival. But just to whet the appetite, …

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A. C. Graham on the Uses of Divination

Will 31 December, 2014 Snippets 3 Comments

I thought that this was worth sharing. It comes from A.C. Graham’s [amazon text=Disputers of the Tao&asin=0812690885], and is about the creative potential of divination techniques such as the Yijing, even if we accept (as I do) that the divinatory process is simply an exercise in playing …

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Writer, philosopher, teacher of both writing and philosophy, occasional scholar. Writing non-fiction, fiction and children's books. Interested in the places where philosophies, stories and lives intersect. Currently freelance. I am represented by Emma Finn at C+W Agency in London.

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