Sue Vincent's Daily Echo

Morning Empty Breathes ~ Goff James #writephoto

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Goff James at Art, Photography and Poetry

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The Fate of the Crown ~ Ken Gierke #writephoto

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The Fate of the Crown

The road we take will determine
the nature of this crown

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Finite #midnighthaiku

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Sorrows weigh heavy

Highlighting finite shadows

Cast by distant light

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How I Became a Freelance Writer ~ Nicholas C. Rossis

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Nicholas C. Rossis:

When I wrote in my last post about the Evolution of Blogging, I didn’t expect so many people to contact me asking how I managed to become a more-or-less full-time freelance writer.

A friend even said that she knows a lot of disabled writers who would be great at it but don’t know how to start. Even worse, most were not even looking because of a rumor that getting paid to write in such a way as freelance writing is by and large not possible and that most of the paid to write jobs are nothing more than scams.

So, here’s my story.

Bark bark

My blog has generated a number of leads from online friends. But my first attempt to start writing professionally came from Bark, a UK-based online company that specializes in matching UK-based freelancers with clients.

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Facing the Stones ~ Wallie’s Wentletrap #writephoto

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It was traditional, not to say required, to be married before the stones. The people of the fields and drops of Little Boulding had kept to this tradition, not at all a requirement, since before anyone could remember. So of course it was expected that if they were to be married, even a goblin and a man ought to be married before the stones.

On this day, the happiest day, Gnarlas was trying to decide why the man wanted to marry her at all.

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Mimir’s Bubbling Head…

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We seem to have finally lost the Hawks.

The day feels somehow empty.

But for Wen the day is still young and she is keen to introduce me to another chalk figure. This one is much later than the Uffington Dragon and, I have to say, a lot less impressive. The chalk does not even appear particularly white just a sort of dirty grey colour. It now seems to depict an equal armed cross surmounting an upward pointing triangle but Wen thinks it may have been a phallus and keitis in its earlier days. One thing is for sure it is clearly visible from the road. When we get up onto the top of the hill the sky has darkened with cloud cover and the earlier highs on Hawk Hill are beginning to feel like a hallucinatory lapse in time.

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When The World Was Sick

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

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The Queen’s Crown ~ Alethea Kehas #writephoto

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I had a feeling Sue was going to post a photo that would align with what brought me out of sleep early this morning…

The men saw the mighty crown rising over the earth and raised their spears in ecstatic joy. “The land is ours to claim,” they yelled, walloping each other on the backs. “Let us go now, before others find what we now see.”

So they set off, gathering their women and children, their knives and axes, and whatever provisions their horses could hold. They waited until night, carving a path through the land with their footsteps and scythes, oblivious in their revelry that they were walking the path of stars.

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Found Mounds…

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Diana and co north 124

‘…We didn’t go to High Bradfield to look for a mound we went to High Bradfield for the church there but we found a mound anyway.

It was hidden behind the church and was purporting to be a disused Motte-and-Bailey.

It was also overgrown with curly trees not unlike those we were surrounded by when looking for the Chat-Stone, now lost…for the moment at least.

I am doing the mound itself something of a disservice here because it is not actually purporting to be anything other than what it is, how could it do otherwise, but the ‘authorities’ for want of a better word are now passing it off as a disused Motte-and-Bailey and have been, perhaps, for some considerable time.

Now, far be it from me to cast aspersions upon the dictates of authority and as there have been excavations at the site which did indeed uncover large blocks of dressed stone there can be little doubt that at some point this ‘man-made conical mound’ did serve the populace, or at least the people who governed the populace, in a defensive capacity.

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