I really enjoyed Sam’s post – follow the link to visit his blog đ
The Golden Hour
Writing
How Important is it to be well-read?
This is a really fab blog by Tom about being well-read – I adored it! Go read & like the original post, folks đ
My mother is probably the wisest person Iâve ever known. Sheâs not schooled, sheâs not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. â Â Gene Simmons
How well-read you are has been a standard measure of intelligence, social kudos and pulling power since the written word was invented. In fact, itâs hard to resist conjecture that it was invented simply to impress other people. And this lingers, despite a digital age of commuters watching TV box sets on public transport, or publicly declaring how moronic they are by playing pointlessly additive games such as the ubiquitous Candy Crush. These activities are for unplugging the mind, not engaging it. Of course in some circles to have concluded the Eggsteroids level in Angry Birds is greatly admired, but it isnât quite the same as being well-read. Not yet.
Being well-read is aâŚ
View original post 1,166 more words
How important is Writing Blog Posts to Novel Writing…?
Please go and like the original post, thank you đ
âIt is named the âWebâ for good reason.â
â
I canât believe Iâve now been desperately thinking of things to blog about for four years. When I started I had little idea what blogging was really about, and now I truly have no idea. I think blogs exist mainly so you can get annoyed, and then say rather pointedly to yourself that youâre going to bloody blog about it, because thereâs clearly a readership out there for articles on driversâ inability to park without taking up two bays. Of course unless you do blog about it within 2 minutes youâll have forgotten all about it and probably driven off anyway. Blogs are the modern equivalent of writing to the Times.
Itâs like all those notes in your phone that were Pullitzer prize winning novels, but now read more like a free-associating dead-head in 1960s San Francisco mumblingâŚ
View original post 622 more words
No rhyme, no reason
Bikini body in the sun, half-cocked gun, a summer weapon, a sassy siren sensing and inviting desire, it was a wave rushing towards me, I was riding the crest, eyes closed beneath my shades, heat spreading between my legs,
but suddenly it all changed, no rhyme, no reason, what the actual fuck was going on, my crazy brain switched moods randomly, Iâve always been my own worst enemy – it was
a senseless dream starting with a less than vague promise of sex and ending with
Van Gogh penniless and in despair trying to drown himself in the deep sunflower fieldsâwhich had long haunted himâtheir colours and shapes having intensified his misery.
What does it all mean?
I woke up tangled in my sheetsâ
I had too much to dream
last night
What IS it about Fashion these days..?
PLease go and like the original post – thank you
Ooh fashion
We are the goon squad and weâre coming to town
Beep-beep, beep-beep
David Bowie. Fashion.
What do our clothes say about us? I donât mean when theyâre crushed together in the laundry basket wondering whoâs next to be washed, and cursing the current favourite top that barely lands before being whisked off to be cleaned â although I can see that as the next Pixar movie. No, I mean what do they announce about ourselves to the world that might otherwise stay silent. I donât just mean band tee-shirts that marked some final tour in 1978, the one thatâs not had the good times rinsed out since.
You can complete character profiles based upon little more than the type of sandwich someone habitually eats, so clothes are a dead giveaway. That thereâs more hashtags for yoga pants than there is for yoga itself tells you all you needâŚ
View original post 562 more words
The Importance of Writing Strong Opening Scenes.
Please go and like the original post – thank you.
âStart as you mean to go on, and keep on doing it.â Scott Wildblood, Proprietor, and lead Assister at the Life Assistance Agency, whom is better known for starting before anyone else is awake and drumming his fingers until they do.
The importance of a killer opening scene to a novel in a world of podcasts, hapless dating, angry fruit games and watching idiotic American sitcoms during your commute is more important than ever. Whatever happened to staring out the window, or reading a book? Well, perhaps the opening chapter wasnât good enough.
For this writer the opening scene to his new novel has been somewhat elusive. Iâve written so many first chapters that Iâm now hoping simply joining them up might result in a completed novel, providing the Life Assistance Agency with the conclusion that it deserves.  However, Iâve recently had a good idea for one, andâŚ
View original post 610 more words
Tragedy
It might be a chance meeting, somewhere totally random, at a time when my thoughts are turned towards the mundaneâwhy didnât I bring an umbrella? Itâs going to rainâor more lofty matters, probably the former though I have no way of knowing what my mind will be occupied with. I am unprepared, though in my dreams Iâll have lived this moment a hundred times or more. Iâll see you across the street maybe, first doubting what my eyes are telling me but my racing heart will know long before my mind has ascertained the truth.
Call your name or walk on?
A few seconds to make a choice, too little time to decide.
I walk on, away…and it takes a little while for a pain so sudden and so great, so fresh it might all have happened yesterday, to fill my chest and spread, making me stumble and try to catch my breath.
I stop, hesitate and call your name, first in a whisper, then louder, because I cannot let you disappear, again. You see me and thereâs no wavering for you, you know what to do, you come to me as if this moment was always meant to be. My body is stiff when you hug me, itâs been years since you last held me, years filled with many things, some of them happy but a life nevertheless underlined with a particular kind of misery. What, next? A pub? Probably. Very little talk to start with. I take you in, a bit more grey in your hair, more lines etched on your face, you look pretty much as I imagined you must do, every time I allowed myself to think of you. I donât know if Iâll find the words, alcohol might help or hinder but maybe no words will be needed, perhaps the touch of my fingers will be enough for you to understand I have always loved you, even as I ran from you, even as I kept away, all these years when we were separated but together all the same, you and I held by a small, powerful unwinding threadâforever isnât just found in fairy tales.
Which will it be? One way or the other, a tragedy.
Red
Red like the pathetically fragile organ you tried so hard to protect,
Without success
as somebody squashed it like a miserable bug,
but
if youâre going to run away with fanciful ideas,
store them somewhere safe, as squirrels do with nuts
before throwing the key down a bottomless well,
then
quite frankly, you must accept
you deserve everything you get
Some Idle thoughts on: Memory
On âMemoryâ – please go and like the original post, thank you
âThe past beats inside me like a second heart.â Â
Once again idle blogs are idling like a classic Bugatti; ticking over, but not forgotten. And it was forgetting what day it was yesterday, unless it was the day before, that caused me to think abut memory and itâs elusiveness. We struggle to recall so much of our lives, yet every stroke, blow and fall is recorded in the unconscious as easily as wooden tables trace and recall the words of biros and knife cuts.
Memory is what makes us who we are and has been a  focus of medical studies throughout history. In the first century, Pliny the Elder described a man who fell off a roof and afterward could not remember his mother, neighbours, and friends. It is unclear if Pliny pushed him or not in the name of science, nor if it was actuallyâŚ
View original post 665 more words
Daughter
Slowly the sun goes down
Splashing dying embers
In her mane
Of untamed hair
With regret he pulls down the shades
To keep the scented summer
Fragrant with life
Outside
A subdued light
Tinged with tiny pools of dark
Invades
Her domain
Sleep softens her features further
He – the faithful sentinel watching over
his delicate flower –
Can’t help but fret
His chest feels tight
Aware the world
Will reach out with eager fingers
She will know hurt
He will contemplate murder
But for now the princess,
Just turned seven
Dreams still intact, untouched
Rests peacefully
He kisses her sweet cheek
Pulls back the covers
One last look, lingering, tender
For now sheâs safe
Her innocence preserved
*Photograph found on Pinterest, try as I might I couldn’t find anyone to credit for it*
P.S. for whatever reason, WordPress is not letting me reply to older comments so I apologise to anyone who’s left thoughts on previous posts – I didn’t mean to ignore you, honest!
