Category Archives: imagination

The right way to write?

Posted on May 3, 2018 by

There was a bit of a conversation going on yesterday over at Serendipity about finding your voice as a writer. It is something with which many writers are preoccupied and with reason. Your voice is your signature. The tone, the … Continue reading →

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Shades of the Golden Age…

Posted on April 27, 2018 by

As a child, I loved the old movies of the swashbuckling variety. Even then, I knew the stories were not real and the history likely to be wildly innaccurate. Romance and adventure did not wait behind every tree. Magic, though, … Continue reading →

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Childhood fantasy

Posted on March 15, 2018 by

He’s right… by the time you reach an age with double figures, fairy stories are for babies… and you are no longer a babe. In just the same way that we cease admitting to the guilty affection for the music … Continue reading →

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Fine fresh apples – Tallis Steelyard

Posted on March 11, 2018 by

Reblogged from Tallis Steelyard: It has to be said that I’m rather partial to a nice crisp apple. The area around Port Naain is quite good from them, northerly but not too northerly, and the weather is quite bracing which … Continue reading →

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Colouring the world

Posted on March 10, 2018 by

I don’t often write about the painting. To be fair, these days, I don’t do it often… and definitely not often enough. There is something entirely sensual about the smell of oils and the feel of canvas beneath the brush… … Continue reading →

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Daydreamer…

Posted on February 5, 2018 by

Crack. The ruler slapped down on the desk, narrowly missing my knuckles and dissolving the magic. “Daydreaming again? You will pay attention in my class, young lady!” The French mistress, determinedly optimistic to the last, turned her back and returned … Continue reading →

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The Schrödinger effect – Top 10 writing related posts 2017

Posted on December 30, 2017 by

Why the Schrödinger effect? Because words on a page, be that in a book or on a screen, reflect the living imagination of the writer, but are dead until a reader’s imagination gives them life. For the writer, no matter … Continue reading →

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Hinting at… Happiness? by Sarah Brentyn

Posted on November 13, 2017 by

Reblogged from Sarah Brentyn: What does a Harvard University professor have to do with flash fiction? Nothing. And everything. Or, at least, something. I’ve thought for a long time now that good flash fiction packs a punch. It heightens emotional … Continue reading →

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Be my guest? Guest posts

Posted on October 5, 2017 by

Would you like to write a guest post and be featured on this blog? If you are a writer, artist or photographer…If you have a poem, story or memoirs to share… If you have a book to promote, a character … Continue reading →

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The Frolics at Nightbell Gardens – Tallis Steelyard

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Reblogged from Tallis Steelyard: Every city has its foibles, this is self evident. I’d go so far as to suggest that every city has bizarre customs that seem entirely sensible to the citizens but which leave the populace of other … Continue reading →

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