I have been having a lot of fun writing creatively every day. Most of it is done in a journal called the Writer’s Workbook which I’ve nearly completed. It encourages you to let the mind wander and write whatever comes to mind. That comes easily for me especially if I have a pen in my […]
AI Prompts for Inspiration 
Is this a thing now? Selling prompts for ChatGPT? Spare me. There has to be something bizarre when people spend more time refining their questions and asking a machine that trawls through all the sites online some genuine, some not and full of crap…and then pull them together and make them into more products […]
Some Thoughts on Filming
On Tuesday I had my first job as the new member of the Heritage Committee at our golf course. I was to film an interview between two long term members who spoke about their story and memoirs of Margie Masters who won a title at the LGPA in 1967 and a member of our club. […]
Writing Practice
I’ve discovered a site called Reedsy which has writing prompts that I could use to practice writing short stories. They have weekly contests where you could submit your story if you want to but I don’t think I’ll be doing that all the time. Instead, I’ll use the prompts to let my mind wander and […]
I Had To Kill You
Song for 2023. Putting my corporate business life behind me. For ever. That world simply is dead to me now.
Random 6 Word Generator Stories
For a bit of fun, every morning I practice my creative stories by using a random word generator to generate six words that I could write a story. The words are bolded in the text. Here’s my first attempts. I have no idea if they are grammatically correct or structured well. My aim is to […]
When You Got To Go, You Got To Go
This is a short piece of fiction from a photo I took this morning that seemed odd and out of place. As I walked around the park, I thought about the story of how the car got there.
Creative Frustration
In this post I write about creative frustration.
Confutatis Maledictus
Mozart composed his requiem (well, part of it) in 1791. In 1984, I was a teenager who had become obsessed with the movie Amadeus. The story, the characters, the music, everything. What I think I was obsessed about was this conflict between someone with innate talent and someone who has to work hard and struggle […]
Creative Challenge – Day 23
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) and thinking I may have missed a day somewhere. No matter. Today she asks us: During this busy time of year, did you have time to respond to all of them and make stuff, or were some or all of them treated as thought-exercises that could only be responded […]
Creative Challenge – Day 22
I am doing Meredith Lewis Creative Challenge – an advent calendar of daily creative prompts and today it’s to recreate an artwork using materials around you. I’m a great fan of Vermeer. Some years ago I was a Rotary Vocational Exchange Program participant for some weeks in the Netherlands. My time on exchange meant that […]
Creative Challenge – Day 21
I am doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompt challenge for the month of December. Today she encourages us to answer the question: “How important are the following questions to you when you assign values of success or failure to your work?” Here goes. This is TOUGH to answer but these are questions I have often […]
Creative Challenge – Day 20
I’m doing Meredith Lewis daily creative prompt challenge. Today, she’s asked us to imagine what the colour of lilac would taste, feel, sound like – to pretend we are a synesthete. I’ve often wondered how people can have this skill and what it would fee like. I feel overwhelmed with my current senses at times […]
Creative Challenge – Day 19
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and for today’s activity, it’s to banish this ugly looking demon who has stifled and prevented my creative endeavours. Bloody hell it’s you again. You’ve reared your ugly head again just at the time when I thought of a new idea that I was getting […]
Creative Challenge – Day 18
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and today it’s to face up to someone who has criticised or prevented us from our creative expressions. That was an easy challenge for today’s prompt because it’s so evident in my life that the turning point for me was early in my career when […]
Creative Challenge – Day 15
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) creative challenge for the month of December where she sends us a creative prompt every day. Today it’s to reflect on the activities that absorbed us as a: Young child Young adult Right now What’s the pattern? This activity is referenced from Etienne Fang who has a brilliant website […]
Creative Challenge – Day 14
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompt challenge and today it’s to make up a story or scenario using the following painting by Berthold Woltze called The Irritating Gentleman. My first thought when I saw this (and I have never seen this painting before) is it’s a typical scene from many young women’s […]
Creative Challenge – Day 13
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) creative prompt challenge every day in December. So far these have been excellent to trigger some reflections but today’s one is something I’m unsure in expressing so openly for fear of what it may mean to my friends, work and networks. As a creative person, what is in your […]
Creative Challenge – Day 12
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompts for the month of December and for Sunday, it was to create my own spell that reclaims my creative identity. I’ve been thinking about this one for the last day or two and decided that I’m going to give it a miss. Why? I’ve never been […]
Creative Challenge – Day 10
I am doing Meredith Lewis Daily December challenge where she prompts us to get creative every day. Today is a bit of a cop out for me because I simply ran out of time. I hate using this as an excuse usually because I’m always a believer that if something is important to you, you’ll […]