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Where the Sentence Starts
On the state of the writer before language has arrived
Jun 21 • Matt Wilven
The Plain Sentence That Took All Day
On the disproportion between the visible labour of prose and the actual labour of prose
Jun 14 • Matt Wilven
The Available Version
There is a kind of sentence that arrives too quickly.
Jun 7 • Matt Wilven

May 2026

Whatever Happened to Creative Technology?
I got my first laptop in 2005.
May 31 • Matt Wilven
A Question My Children Probably Won’t Ask
There’s a scene that exists in films.
May 24 • Matt Wilven
Fiction is Cooperation
Fiction does not deliver immersion by default.
May 17 • Matt Wilven
What Pages Can Do That Screens Can’t
Once in a while I suspect writing fiction is pointless.
May 10 • Matt Wilven
Embodied Narration: When Thought Collides With Flesh
To write fiction is to lend the reader a body.
May 3 • Matt Wilven

April 2026

The Ghost of the Author in Fiction
When you finish reading a novel, you have met someone.
Apr 26 • Matt Wilven
Why I Stopped Being Afraid of Non-Fiction
The earliest things I wrote were lyrics.
Apr 19 • Matt Wilven
Where the Meaning Lives
The word, the self, and the machine
Apr 5 • Matt Wilven

March 2026

The Sphere
What the Earth Refuses | 2 of 10
Mar 29 • Matt Wilven
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