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The Last Quarter
What a year it’s been, there are four months to go. No one would have guessed the way the last twelve months have gone – that’s both on a personal level and with everything that’s happened with the Coronavirus. I’m just getting myself back into the swing of things creatively after a week away in…
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Finishing What You Start
It’s July and we’re past the halfway mark of the year. It has been a difficult one given the pandemic and lockdown. Thankfully I have been okay and my family too. Although a few of my neighbours have been affected. They are thankfully on the mend. At the start of the year, I set out…
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Unread Books
It’s the summer, although it might not be noticeable given the recent weather, and it’s usually a time when the teaching and the marking subsides and I can do my own thing. Which is usually the more creative things; music and writing that I like doing. Before I can get on with doing that, I…
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The Great Reopening
Today marked the further relaxation of some of the measures imposed because of lockdown. I won’t say anything about my opinions of the government’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis, let’s just it isn’t favourable. To be honest I think the end of lockdown is going too quickly especially as the R number is supposedly increasing…
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All the Time in the World
At the start of the lockdown, there were several articles published about having all the time to finish that novel. That is something I had been trying to do since the start of the year, so I was ahead of that curve. So, while, everyone else went off at a rate of knots doing the…
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Writing Momentum
I’m not one for doing New Year’s resolutions, but this year I did and I resolved to write more. Yep, that one again. Usually, by this time of the year, I would be still building up to this happening. With the usual excuses of writer’s block or that I didn’t have the time due to…
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New Year’s Resolutions
I don’t normally set resolutions. Well, I don’t write them down that’s for sure. but the last few years I have had a few ideas in mind and I have let things slip. In fact, in the list that follows, there are a few recurring ambitions. The novel one definitely. So, with eyes on being…
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End of My Masters
There was me thinking that I would blog and tweet my way all the way through the final project of my MA. The best-laid plans and all that…Who knew that the whole business of writing a novel would get in the way. Well, it’s finished. There were times that it felt like I would never…
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