My writing is normally done with a pair of headphones on and music playing. This allows me to go into my own world and create. I can write without music but I find it difficult. It give my writing form and flow. So here is my current songs, or a selection of as I have… Continue reading My inspiration – my mix tape masterpiece
Category: Miscellaneous
Eye of the Beholder
I have seen a lot of art and my life is spent working in a shed that I gallantly call a workshop, listening to music. So finding one that stands out is difficult. There are two... one art and one music. Both may not be everyone's idea of beautiful but to me they are the… Continue reading Eye of the Beholder
The Clothes (May) make the Woman (Writer)
The clothes may make the woman writer... I have been thinking about all the readings I've been to and what people were wearing. It is strange because I have seen some incredibly stylish people and some that have been wearing what looked like large house-coats. Yet in every instance you could pick out from the entourage… Continue reading The Clothes (May) make the Woman (Writer)
Ebb and Flow
The Daily Prompt has asked for a blog post from the future, three years to be exact... What will I be doing then? Most of the time I barely know what I am doing a week in advance. But this is a blog post of my perfect-ish future. Ebb and Flow 2016 September is ending… Continue reading Ebb and Flow
Standstill
Daily Prompt - Standstill If I could make one moment from today standstill? It would have to be the point where the sheep were all in the barn. For that split second we could have closed the gate and then treated them and it would be all done with. Except in that split second the… Continue reading Standstill
Daily Prompt – practice makes perfect
Practice Makes Perfect There is one thing... I have always wanted to be in an orchestra and to play an instrument. I was recently out and someone had turned to me - do you read music? This was a little left field but apart from being startled for a moment I smiled and said -… Continue reading Daily Prompt – practice makes perfect
Clusters, Writing and Toys
Not many will know that I make my living making toys... - Really. Soft Toys and Rag Dolls. Except that it has a cost, one that when I opened the business I had no idea. Firstly your wrist and shoulder ache continually, then your back joins in and lastly your ribs. The eye-strain is incredible… Continue reading Clusters, Writing and Toys
Daily Prompt – Procrastination
Procrastination To procrastinate - to carry out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time. I do procrastinate, but it usually involves writing. You see I love to write, but not all subjects. So… Continue reading Daily Prompt – Procrastination
Sound Tracks
I was listening to the radio today and they were talking about sound-tracks to your life. I hadn't really thought about it. I am not a great person for buying music. Throughout my buying life I have only accumulated 40 CDs. Most of my music comes from the radio, but I do have some that… Continue reading Sound Tracks
Thinking outside the box
If you tell someone to think outside the box, they can't. But writers always think outside the box... But what box? The box itself is a metaphor. The box can be anything. For me the box is my life. The physical life that I live, from waking to sleeping. Any writing I do has to… Continue reading Thinking outside the box
