Reboot
As much as I hate to write about writing, especially when I write so infrequently, I feel I need to reboot this blog. I wrote so few posts …
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A Diary?
This year promises to be exciting so this week I tried to buy a diary. One of those day-to-a-page affairs for scribbling down all the things …
Valleys
In my last post, I wrote about hills. I tried to use them as a metaphor to explain nagging sense of incompletion when you single out one …
Hills
I’m a big fan of books. The way they transport you away to other places and so on. As repositories of knowledge and adventure they …
Changes
I Don't Have a Clue, part 43
A little man wearing a bow tie, and possibly a fez, scurries into the middle of the frame clutching a clapboard. Breathing heavily he hoists …
The Long Post
I am writing a long post that I will either publish as one long post (about five or six thousand words) or as about seven smaller ones each …
Time Is Time and That Is That
A brief rant about Facebook: I hate the fact that the news feed defaults to “Top Stories” even though I change it back to “Most Recent” …
A Little Bit Intimidating Really
There is so much good writing out there. All you have to do is fire up the guardian website, or download the medium app to your smartphone, …
On Writing As It Happens
I’m pretty close to a round number. To date I have written 298,500 words for this blog, not counting posts that I have discarded or deleted. …
On Jackson X
I set myself the task of writing about a fictional character for this blog post, so this post is about Jackson X. His surname isn’t really …
On convictions, whereas to the strength of and belief in same
Overlong reflection upon the past is one sure way to make yourself unhappy so I try to avoid it. Nevertheless it becomes unavoidable at this …