Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Sorry, and the end of the blog.

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   Forgive me. I don't think you'll come back here again but should you ever stop by, this will be the message you see. This blog wa...
Monday, 5 December 2016

Lonely and Lugubrious; A Misanthrope's Diary

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For the second time in five years I've just put myself through what must be a pretty accurate representation of my own personal Hell: S...
Thursday, 17 November 2016

yup.

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Well, shit. That pretty much sums it up. Night, all.
Saturday, 12 November 2016

Genuinely Ungenuine Photosynthetic Raindrops and their Paradoxical Song & Dance Routines in the Pebble Beach Basement of the Soul

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   I'm terrible for mixing metaphors. To read draft one of this essay (no, I'm not becoming more organised and doing multiple drafts...
Tuesday, 1 November 2016

The Dancing Sardine

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She wore what looked a lot like a necklace on her wrist, wound several times round to make it fit, just like the bobble her ponytail was esc...
Saturday, 29 October 2016

A conversation with my emotions.

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So you're back, then. Didn't take long for you to get bored, did it? Listen, I know we go way back but you should have read the sig...
Sunday, 16 October 2016

Here we go again

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I've got a new muse. I'm still working out what that means, if I'm honest. Where does this feeling come from? Why do certain peo...
Saturday, 17 September 2016

Even I don't know what the hell this is.

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I was sat there staring at a blank text box, no idea what to write, just as in yesteryear. So I found myself scouring the internet for topic...
Monday, 12 September 2016

Success Feels a Lot Like Just More Socially-Acceptible Failure. Or, why natural selection suggests that I am a Gorilla trying to swim the Atlantic.

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So, tomorrow sees the start of the next phase of my life. Employment! I've had jobs before of course but in this bullshit post-2008-glob...
Wednesday, 29 June 2016

The rantiest rant I ever ranted. Or, how Brexit made my blood boil.

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   OK, you want to know something? I am a sore loser. I mean, not generally: mostly I accept defeat when it occurs (this is not often as I...
Wednesday, 25 May 2016

A soupçon of wibblyness and other nostalgic qualia from 2am

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You do not know what you've got 'til it's gone. Not strictly true, I think, but it's weird how you can suddenly realise tha...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

A Review of my Ten-Year Plan; or, Welp, I think it's about time for a quarter-life crisis.

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So, 26 today and how did I celebrate? I went to the job centre. Not because that's how I enjoy a special occasion, it's just somethi...
Thursday, 2 July 2015

Straw Men on Slippery Slopes

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Right, can I just take a moment to remind you that we are in 2015? That we live in a supposedly enlightened society? OK. That done, can I as...
Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Inspiration strikes

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So, today I started work on my first... hmmm first novel? first short story? First something or other, anyway. I don't know where it...
Friday, 26 June 2015

Letters from the past, nearly illegible but not nearly illegible enough.

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So, I've talked a lot in here about how I like to write. You've probably noticed that the idea of writing professionally is starting...
Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Creative Non-fiction

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So, I realised I'd nearly forgotten to write something today and was casting around for a topic. I had this in the pipeline but it wasn...
Saturday, 13 June 2015

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Well, it's only day three of my write-something-every-day challenge and just 36 hours since I really put the pressure on with a melodram...