Leanpub Header

Skip to main content

Other writing: Travel and fiction

Small stories from travels and more

The author is letting you choose the price you pay for this book!

Pick Your Price...
PDF
EPUB
WEB
About

About

About the Book

This anthology from the Tetradian weblog highlights a range of themes beyond my usual domain of architectures and the like. There’s a particular emphasis here on travel and fiction.

The book includes about 35 posts and 10 images, and is split into two sections:

  • Write: Travel - centres around travel-experiences in France, Portugal, Mexico, Guatemala, Britain and other countries.
  • Write: Fiction - presents examples of writing in various fictional styles, for business-stories, alternate-history and science-fiction.

Price

Pick Your Price...

Minimum price

$9.99

$12.99

You pay

$12.99

Author earns

$10.39
$

All prices are in US $. You can pay in US $ or in your local currency when you check out.

EU customers: prices exclude VAT, which is added during checkout.

...Or Buy With Credits!

Number of credits (Minimum 1)

1
The author will earn $12.00 from your purchase!
You can get credits monthly with a Reader Membership

Author

About the Author

Tom Graves

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than four decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including small-business, banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in whole-enterprise architectures for non-profit, social, government and commercial enterprises.

Contents

Table of Contents

WRITE - TRAVEL AND FICTION: INTRODUCTION

WRITE: TRAVEL

The struggle to communicate

The meaning of fado

Pay it forward

In Avignon…

A slow day

Lourmarin and Cucuron

Leaving Arles

A tale of two restaurants

Back ‘home’

Martine wants to be in a novel

In Portugal

Fado at Coimbra

Running away

Solstice

The strange joys of the anti-vacation

El dia del diablo

Air-guitar

The safety-guys would have kittens (or goats)

That volcano’s gettin’ kinda busy…

Tepoztlan

When leadership takes risk

Full moon in Tepoztlan

Three EA gigs in Mexico

Where is the information when we need it?

Pointless paperwork

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

“I die inside…”

Enterprise-architectures for the real world

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Real-time drawing

Happy Whatever!

Sometimes the small details do matter

Exact Lives Save Change

WRITE: FICTION

On fiction and EA - Marco’s plan

  1. Chapter 21
  2. Chapter 22
  3. Chapter 23
  4. Chapter 24
  5. Chapter 25
  6. Chapter 26
  7. Chapter 27

On fiction and RBPEA - ‘Chance and the Institution’

  1. Chance and the Institution

Viner Journey novel - first draft

Fiction: Elizabeth’s question

Fiction: Alan: The real cause of war

Writing-exercise: Utopia and dystopia

  1. 1. Meanings of ‘utopia’ and ‘dystopia’
  2. 2. Utopia and dystopia as story-drivers
  3. 3. Utopia and dystopia as background milieu
  4. 4. An ambiguous utopia: utopia-for-some
  5. 5. From utopia to dystopia
  6. 6. Utopia or dystopia - personal, social, or somewhere between?

Get the free sample chapters

Click the buttons to get the free sample in PDF or EPUB, or read the sample online here

The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.

Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.

You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!

So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?

See full terms...

Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase

We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.

(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)

In fact, authors have earned over $14 million writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub

Free Updates. DRM Free.

If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).

Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.

Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.

Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them

Write and Publish on Leanpub

You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!

Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.

Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub