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	<title>A Life in Writing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Yeoh won the international 2006 Gate Translation award for NAKAMITSU. Ben was born in London to a Chinese-Malay father and Singaporean mother. He trained as a behavioural neuroscientist at Cambridge, before studying play writing at Harvard. Theatre: LEMON LOVE, Finborough Theatre (2001); LOST IN PERU, Camden People’s Theatre (2003); YELLOW GENTLEMEN, Oval House Theatre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endings of plays vs novels / One Day by Nicholls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Modern plays tend to have short or very short codas. The scenes after the climax of the play. The “quick in quick out” school of scene writing which some attribute to the David Mamet style (start the scene close to the climax/turning point, end the scene close to after the turn) has been influential in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eigengrau</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeing or reading a play written by someone you know is not the same experience as coming to it blankly. Inferences &#8211; probably mostly imaginary &#8211; seep through like when meeting a celebrity your mind is unintentionally full of the &#8211; probably mostly imaginary &#8211; media reports. Reactions to plays build upon what you know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Hare: writing tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Guardian, which also highlights other authors writings tips. I like Morpugo: &#8220;Ted Hughes gave me this advice and it works wonders: record moments, fleeting impressions, overheard dialogue, your own sadnesses and bewilderments and joys.&#8221; And in semi-jest, Richard Ford&#8217;s : &#8220;Don&#8217;t have children.&#8221; Link here. David Hare 1 Write only when you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matters you can&#8217;t know until you know them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are matters you can’t know until you know them. Then you can’t unknow them. There are some experiences that are difficult to fully understand until you have them. Then there is no going back. I will know if my characters have had a parent, child or closed loved one die. If you haven’t suffered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To lead them, you need to love them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t lead the people if you don&#8217;t love the people; you can&#8217;t save the people if you don&#8217;t serve the people&#8221; attrib to Cornel West]]></description>
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		<title>A time to be born, and a time to die.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My neighbour and friend at Harvard, who was training to be a priest, recently gave me a book on David Jones. Jones’ poems In Parenthesis and Anathemata are great works I come back to time and again. They are not easy first reading but very rewarding. From In Parenthesis, part 7 And to Private Ball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hamlet / Fat maggots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[we fat all / creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for / maggots]]></description>
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		<title>Investing / Warren Buffett</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only invest what you can afford to lose and for most people (9/10, I think) a low cost tracker fund is probably the best vehicle for them. For others who want to invest for the long term themselves, Warren Buffett is a very good guide. He writes in his 2007 shareholder letter: &#8220;Charlie [Munger] and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjaminyeoh.com/benjaminyeoh/archives/425</link>
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		<title>Caryl Churchill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Playwrights don&#8217;t give answers, they ask questions&#8216; Mark Ravenhill writes an article ahead of the Royal Court season of readings, I hope to catch some of the plays although I am travelling out of London most of the time. The Caryl Churchill readings are at the Royal Court, September 16-26. 020 7565 5000, royalcourttheatre.com]]></description>
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