I recently read that writing is all about telling stories. That good story tellers have the potential to become good writers. It makes alot of sense. All of the good writers I have met have been good story tellers. They revel and excel in bringing events to life verbally as well as via the written […]
Through the apple tree’s upper branches, at the foot of our garden, is the sight of a distant quiet paradise. In the early evening, when the sun is out, the woods and fields light up as if they were lightly covered in gold. I feel the potential of a 1000 journeys through that unspoilt land. […]
Modern Etiquette is a tricky beast these days, and only yesterday I found myself facing a difficult dilemma. I generally try not worry too much about what is the conventional norm within society, but there really is no escape. We are shaped by our environments, by our upbringing, we are wary of what social behaviour […]
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Enigma
I turned 31 last Thursday, and sometime later in the week I was wondering how I had changed? Without reflection, it seems like age creeps upon us - catching us completely unaware. I don’t feel any older now than I did when I was in my mid-20s. I was thinking whether my […]
One of my worst habits - of type procrastination - is habitual skipping. Not skipping skipping of course, but the skipping of exercises. If I am reading a book on creative writing or studying a course book, usually at the end of a chapter I will find a writing exercise. Without giving it a second […]
I am not blind. My eyes are not closed to life passing by my window. Yet something is impaired. A wealth of stimuli floods my eyes, but then what. My senses itch but then what….Here lies the problem. I have a lot of trouble articulating the ‘feelings’. I observe but cannot capture the sensory perception.
It […]
My descriptive writing needs a little work - ‘Her hair is BROWN and she has DARK eyes’. This sort of vocabulary would be barely adequate to play ‘Guess Who’ with. Blah, it is times like this that I would usually just stop - resigned to forever being some sort of inarticulate literary mute. I wonder […]
What am I doing here? Day 3 of my Starbucks experiment; getting up extra early to do a bit of writing before work. I haven’t yet adjusted to getting up at 10 past 6. I was fiercely resistant to coming to Starbucks this morning, let alone trying to do some writing. With this amount of […]
I was relaxing in a hot bath yesterday afternoon. I find it helps to clear my head like nothing else. I stop thinking about a million things at once, and just think about one thing in particular, or nothing at all. This particular time I realised that soaking in a bath is the most distraction […]
Burnt me head. And me neck.
I seem to have no idea when it comes to being out in the sun. Maybe its a Northern thing, or a geek thing. I have no concern about getting a tan, so when I go out in the sun to read I don’t have a tan seating strategy. Am […]
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