Tag: writing
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travel
For some reason recently several different people have said things to me about travel – the sort of thing that could easily be a meme. If they hadn’t said them in person I would have assumed that my phone had been listening to me or checking out my social media scrolling and the algorithm was…
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tidy
Regular bloggists will know that I perform magical illusions as a hobby / obsession / therapy / art form / entertainment. You can read more about it here where there are also links to my magic website (it’s a website about my magic, not a magical website) and to my StewTube Magic channel that contains…
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incredible you
The human brain is incredible, isn’t it? I could reel off loads of statistics about it, but I want you to think for a moment about something. Anything. If you’re thinking, “I don’t know what to think about,” then consider your mind magically read. Tadaaa! (Or perhaps I am just playing the probabilities that someone…
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How’s your inbox?
When I returned to work after my sabbatical leave I had over 250 emails waiting for my attention. Some were spam, some were newsletters, some were received because of subscriptions and some were sent personally. I selected them all and pressed ‘delete’. It was wonderfully cathartic. I can already hear some of you complaining that…
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Words
This week I have been mostly writing a novel. It’s a piece of work I started in 2007 and has been mostly dormant over the past couple of decades with occasional bursts of inspiration. I had managed about 14,000 words and reckon it was about half-finished when I resumed this week. We’re now up to…
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Everyone has a book in them… but it may not want to come out
A very long time ago I had an idea for a novel. I even had what I thought was a clever title. So, I started writing. It’s set in a specific time period and, as I wrote, I was delighted to see how actual events happened around that time which I could incorporate into the…
