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NAVIGATING MY OWN (WRITING-)LANDSCAPE.SOME STRUCTURE….BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on May 24, 2020 by decayetude

PREMISES/(META)THEMES: How wide(loose baggy monster?)/narrow(er) do I want the scope of my putative, yet-to-be-written athwart and/or post Covid narrative? Am I lost and wandering within my own narrative; or by way of a dual(third and first person) narrative process?(just as … Continue reading →

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WRITING EXERCISE. MIGHT BECOME MORE….30 EVENTS IN MY LIFE; IN BULLET SNAP-SHOTS(with brief marginalia).THE FIRST TWENTY(might not get further) BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 2, 2020 by decayetude

Can I link this to my “loose baggy monster”{H.James}post/across Covid putative (ever-delayed) visitor-in-his-own-land narrative; is this just one-step too freaky???…. ____________________________________________________________ HERE GOES: 30? wtf…….In BULLET points? wtf….my life (hitherto) on a menu I was born [TRIGGER; too traumatic] 2. … Continue reading →

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WRITING EXERCISE…. AND MORE.WHAT MAKES MY METRONOME WORK AND NOT WORK(“RIDERS”/”DRIVERS”).HOW CAN I USE THIS IS IN MY POST-COVID UNREAL/REAL OLD/NEW REALITY SERIES OF NARRATIVES? .BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 22, 2020 by decayetude

Let’s see where this goes….. As gay men, we made/make our (ever-changing/growing/receding{sometimes, in Covid time; occasionally expanding even then/now}REALITY…. to various degrees, depending on various macro and micro life /geographical configurations(and there is some choice in it, if we are … Continue reading →

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WHY DO I WRITE?. FOR MERSEYSIDE LGBT CREATIVE WRITING GROUP.JUNE 2018.FREEFLOW. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 6, 2018 by decayetude

QUESTIONS Status angst? (A bit; see below) Do I (linked to above; other reasons?) want to be published; in what format? Is(n’t) a blog enough?(well, one mainly defunct, in decay, “Decayetude https://decayetude.wordpress.com/ and the hopeful one more active:THIS one!) These … Continue reading →

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BOOKSHOP STORIES. PART 3.YARBOROUGH HOUSE:A MANIC MEDITATION. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 23, 2018 by decayetude

There is a place called Yarborough House. It is a bookshop-cum-record-and café entity. It is in the struggling, slightly decaying town of Bishop’s Castle in the lorn lostness of Shropshire (“Clunton, Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun”). The town-if such is not … Continue reading →

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HAPPINESS.THE OTHER BOOKSHOP:TANGENTS AND EXPLORATIONS. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on November 12, 2017 by decayetude

It is Sunday time; it is liminal time. The man in the coffee-tasting emporium ( a rather-aporically-pleasant bastion of {bourgeois}capitalism):- he liked Kafka:) He REALLY liked Kakka; he really did. A serendipity, on the ramparts of the bastion. He was … Continue reading →

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FOR “PRIDE STORY” WRITING GROUP.”STEPS TO FREEDOM:PAUL’S (GAY) START IN LIFE”.REFLECTIONS. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on June 28, 2017 by decayetude

Paul, in memory, re-entered and re-claimed his first flat(since coming out as gay ); in his act of rememberance, he walked around the land of yesteryear,but also(in vertical time) the demesne of today, as his memory joined the past and … Continue reading →

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CREATING MY OWN SPRING.PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY IN ACTION! BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on March 12, 2017 by decayetude

As winter edges towards spring,I inhabit a liminal place/space, a queer(quirky, self-created, counter-hegemonic) SAFE space, an oasis; today, it is in Blackwell’s impoverished, slowly declining (but, temporarily, re-invented) new little University bookshop. Amidst. and athwart, the quotidian distress and fear of … Continue reading →

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A RIVEN LIFE.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on November 23, 2016 by decayetude

He didn’t quite know how to manage this. In a fog of anxiety, he went, every Tuesday to the slightly decaying “Beautiful View” hotel, entering by the back door, in order not to be seen. Most of his friends were … Continue reading →

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ZIGZAG.MY (ONGOING!)COMING OUT STORY. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on November 23, 2016 by decayetude

First thought; this is corny. Yet, it is the All too True Self- Narrative Of Gay People……………………………………………………… {self-reportage}. Stage 1 In 1981, at university in Aberystwyth, I endeavoured to come out and half made it:furtive visits to the gay bar(Tuesday … Continue reading →

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