Welcome to the site for Anglo-Irish writer and journalist David Moore, who's now living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It contains my (now suspended) blog and nearly all the arts, features and technology articles I've written over the last ten years, as well as information about my published book, The Accidental Pilgrim.
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Plan B
So with some help from Buendia (who reckons she should have been an editor, not an architect), I’ve come up with something of a plan for the Mississippi book: less Mississippi, more David.
I’d thought I would have something important to say about the red states, and urban decline and all that, and while I did see some interesting stuff, most of my conclusions could have been reached in the comfort of an armchair a long way from Iowa or Arkansas.
Also, how much does any travel writer really get inside a place that they only visit for 24 hours, before heading off to the next target?
I realised that the more interesting topics were more personal - how I came to have this troubled but affectionate relationship with America, and what I’ve gleaned from living in 3 different parts of it, not just drifting through.
The photo shows part of the planning for the next draft - some Mississippi stuff is still there (in pink, if you’re interested) - but there’s a lot more Kansas, San Francsico and Santa Fe in there (green post-its), and some broader themes (the yellow stuff).
Now all I have to do is write it (again).
