Recycling the Trash

Thoughts on Revisiting Failed Ideas and the Legacy of 'O Watcher of Men'

Sometimes, we write things which we love but which don’t quite work (at least for other people), yet they won’t leave us alone.

I realise that I’m probably using first-person plural here to feel less alone, and perhaps to disguise the fact that I’m just rambling about my own process. Certainly, I wouldn’t recommend my ‘process’ to anyone else. While it h…