John Baker’s Blog

The term, functional shift, refers to the way one part of speech is made to serve another; often a verb shifting or altering its nature to become a noun. The line in King Lear for example, where Edgar compares himself to the king: “He childed as I fathered”, sees nouns shifting to verbs. There are [...]

This is a deconstruction of Homer’s Odyssey from the wife’s point of view. Margaret Atwood lends Penelope a twenty-first-century voice and allows her to retell the story of her marriage and life with (and without) the hero of Greek myth, Odysseus.
. . . he took a cable which had seen service on a blue-bowed [...]

You let it out from time to time. Margaret Atwood, I like her. Or you tell someone you’ve just finished another Elmore Leonard novel. Rupert Thomson, I’ve read a couple of those, there’s always something . . .
Whatever, your tastes change and you get to the end of this author’s work and start on someone [...]

1. Why do you blog?
On my personal writing blog, All Kinds of Writing, I blog mostly because it’s a fun way for me to tackle everything writing in my life. Since I write fiction, non-fiction, op-eds and factual articles, my blog is about ALL kinds of writing. However, I do concentrate on my favourite part [...]