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Hope I die before I get old
The Who had a point. We have an ageing population. Science has extended our life expectancy far beyond that of even recent ancestors. Diseases can be treated. Broken bodies can be mended. To someone living a hundred years ago, this progress would seem little short of miraculous. All well and......Read More
Posted on: 2008-08-29 15:07:01 |  Rating: | Views: 8 | Comments: 0 | Tags: old age  senile dementia  geriatric healthcare  respect  dignity 
Ever after
I’ve been thinking about stories again. I realise I spend most of my time doing this, hence the vacant expression as I move about the world giving most of my attention to the people inside my head, but this time I’m talking about storytelling. More precisely, the need humans have for......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-30 15:17:16 |  Rating: | Views: 33 | Comments: 1 | Tags: storytelling  humanity  reality  Jane Austen  Doctor Who  happy endings 
So why blog? (Revisited)
“Why am I here?” is a question that gets asked millions of times every day (and that’s just me at work before my first tea break). There are countless avenues I could go down with this thought but I shall leave aside all job-related considerations and get straight to specifics.......Read More
Posted on: 2008-06-18 16:01:35 |  Rating: | Views: 54 | Comments: 1 | Tags: blogging  writers’ egos 
Paraphrasing Bob Hoskins
I’m going to give myself the benefit of the doubt and decide that I can write for my blog this evening as I’ve just taken a scene of the thriller to a satisfactory conclusion. Perhaps this can be my new regime: half an hour of rigorous plotting followed by thirty minutes’......Read More
Posted on: 2008-06-12 15:10:16 |  Rating: | Views: 57 | Comments: 0 | Tags: communication  friendship  courtesy 
Writer's blog
Perhaps I’m missing the point. I was under the impression that I was writing this blog to make myself a better writer, or at the very least one who turns in a reasonable number of words on a regular basis. It’ll be good for you, I told myself. Instil discipline. Give your fingers a......Read More
Posted on: 2008-06-04 14:15:35 |  Rating: | Views: 63 | Comments: 2 | Tags: procrastination  quitting Thoughts.com 
Sheepish blogging, or writing for a familiar audie
When I started this blog, I didn’t have a very clear idea of what I was going to do with it. (And why don’t you let us know when you do, I hear you cry.) So I started out down one avenue, veered off on a couple of wild tangents, waffled in woolly fashion and generally meandered along.......Read More
Posted on: 2008-05-28 15:59:46 |  Rating: | Views: 56 | Comments: 2 | Tags: writers' egos  self-censorship  submission to literary agents 
Dust (contender for most boring title of the week,
We have the builders in. One builder, to be precise, though he’s making enough noise for at least three of them. What is the collective noun for builders? A hod of bricklayers. A blade, no, a saw of carpenters. As the masonry drill gnaws into the walls, perhaps a dusting of builders would......Read More
Posted on: 2008-05-21 14:19:22 |  Rating: | Views: 88 | Comments: 1 | Tags: dust  builders  teenagers  middle-aged rebellion (failing) 
Rebellion and the late developer
I was never a teenage rebel. I was never sure why this was the case. I played my music at a pleasantly low level, I didn’t hang out on street corners with unsuitable friends. Even now, there are members of my family who boggle at the fact I came out of university a virtual teetotaller. The......Read More
Posted on: 2008-05-16 14:19:41 |  Rating: | Views: 86 | Comments: 2 | Tags: rebellion  corporate lunacy 
Acting your age
You know the sort of days where you get home from work and you feel old and tired? Right now my eyes are doing that Clint Eastwood thing, narrowing dangerously as a miscreant slinks into range, except my trouble is just that my eyeballs feel like they need taking out and running under the cold......Read More
Posted on: 2008-05-06 14:31:16 |  Rating: | Views: 71 | Comments: 1 | Tags: ageing  peer pressure 
Fings ain't wot they used to be
Harking back to what I was blethering about the other day, I’ve been thinking about why Mr Darcy is perhaps more of an icon than Elizabeth Bennet. Pride and Prejudice (known henceforth as P&P to save my fingers) is often seen as a female book, that is, one tailored for the part of the......Read More
Posted on: 2008-04-30 15:41:44 |  Rating: | Views: 81 | Comments: 3 | Tags: Jane Austen  fictional characters  debonair heroes 

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