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To carry on, or not to carry on...
...THAT is the question...
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Writing prompt #2
Given the prompt two days ago was so popular, here's another. What can you make of this image?
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Writing prompt
What can you make of this image?
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"The Big Frog Theory" - an excerpt
A new edition of my Magic Realism novel, "The Big Frog Theory", is out on the 19th April.
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"The Labyrinth"
- and the difference layout can make to a poem.
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"Vox Humana"
From a work-in-progress based on photographs taken at Lincoln Cathedral.
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"The man who bought a pier" - 2
The second extract from my w-i-p (aka 'unfinished novel')...
"The man who bought a pier"
Magic realism anyone?
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He has no redeeming features...
In fictional characters, is that an issue?
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Portsmouth - 1958-1962
The second section from the memoir I began to draft a few years ago...
"Stan, Stan, the Crackpot Man"
By the time I went to college I had lived in over seventeen different houses, flats and rooms. A nomadic lifestyle driven by my parents' inability to…
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Ancient history
Where and how everything began...
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