I've written plenty of posts about why I write. However, Chuck Wendig recently posed a Flash Fiction Challenge, not for fiction but fact with the question: I’m asking for a 1000 word essay (meaning, blog post). And I want it on this subject: WHY I WRITE. And though Chuck gave a deadline of July 31st, …
Category: Life
Rhyming for a hit of delirium
Not too long ago I held a belief that my real life impeded my need to explore a life inside Imaginationland. I wanted to create stories and share them with others. I wanted time to write, to create characters and watch them have lives of their own. When Mr Sandman visits each night, my eyelids …
Better at 40 than 20!
Today I turned 40, which is no bad thing if you consider what my life was like at 20, which we'll get to in a bit. Before you start reading, take a look at the photo above. You'll find out why shortly. Nice hat though, right? Found that jaunty little head-piece on Cambridge market today. …
Giving Thanks # 3 & 4 – Sainsbury’s Cornish pasty
When Old Man Winter arrives, he blesses the UK with miserable grey skies, snow that other countries smirk at and sun so weak it forces you to debate whether to use your car side lights or full beam, sometimes even in the middle of the day. The British have been here a while now, and …
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Giving Thanks # 2 – Serenity
Whilst I love the world I inhabit I often find that it's just too damned noisy. If it's not the phone in my pocket, with its loud beep-beep constantly reminding me that Facebook, Twitter and other wonderfully important must-see-right-now updates, it's the other stuff that slowly seeps into my head and erodes my sense of …
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