Today I did a few things to update my old “brand” (is that the dreaded word we use now?). Now that I’m not working and unlikely to ever go back into the corporate world doing what I did before, I realise that I have no formal “occupation” as such. I have described myself as “semi […]
The Cloak of Invisibility
I realised that the cloak of invisibility is not fiction. It is in fact, over women of a certain age. Yesterday I went through all my YouTube beauty or fashion channel subscriptions and unsubscribed from those where the women espoused natural beauty (pretty much all of them) and at the same time, have had facial […]
One Minute Fiction: The Urge
The familiar urge overcame him again. He wondered where it had gone to for some months. Now it was back but stronger. It cursed through his blood stream, felt it’s pulse in his temples. Sweat trickled down his back. He watched the man who hadn’t moved from his seat. It was time. He took a […]
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 […]
I Wagged School Today
I did a Ferris Bueller. I wagged school. I didn’t feel like going to the U3A classes today because I had been playing the ukulele and practising French in my own time all weekend. Those classes could wait another week. Instead I wanted to walk the city streets and have some time to be in […]
Vivid Dreaming
In this post I write about my vivid dreams.
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.
Blue Sky
Pondering about the sky
What I’m Reading This Week
Here’s some bits and bobs of what I’m reading this week and some of my own opinions of the posts. Texts between Elon Musk and his Sycophants I rolled my eyes when I read that one of them would “jump on a grenade” for him. Bloody hell. Read this tripe and I dare you not […]
Short Story….Submitted
Well today I finally submitted my short story (2363 words) for our local council’s My Brother Jack Creative Writing Award. It’s taken a long time to come up with the story and the character. However, I found the setting quite easily. I imagined what my street would have been like in 1942 and back then, […]
Posting Prompts For Enterprise Social Networks, Yay or Nay?
What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? Mmm. 🤔 Good question. For me my daily habit that improves my quality of life is my reading habit. I need to read every day – and not on screens but I mean, physical books. The time I sit or lie down is […]
Fiction Writing
One of the things I’ve been doing in my spare time is writing fiction for the local council My Brother Jack awards. As an annual award to encourage writers in the local community, this competition has been running for many years and it’s always been at the back of my mind to submit an entry […]
Writing in the Dark
What do you do when you have an idea and it comes to you in the middle of the night? Too easy. Switch on the light and write it down on a piece of paper on your bed stand or tap it out onto your phone. Well back in Lewis Carroll’s time, you can imagine […]
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 […]
On Reading & Writing
I had to save this excerpt from Barry Lopez, About This Life which was shared by Robert McFarlane on Twitter recently. Just read it, it’s beautiful.