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Within the sky, or without?
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 82. Between the 1st of October and the 9th of November, I kept a sky journal as part of an exercise intended to create a…
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Everything is Connected Part 4 - Ten Questions
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 72. I have thought long and hard about publishing this particular prompt, it’s been several months in cogitation and…
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One perfect notebook to rule them all
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 71. I love a good notebook and even though I spent over 30 years working in IT there was always something about the feel of…
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Cowgate
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 70. We humans tend to think we are superior to anything else that exists in the world, indeed superior to the world itself…
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REPRISE: A Recipe for Breaking Up
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 69. In March 2023 the writing prompts were all recipes of one sort or another from love potions, to changing the world, and…
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Seeds of Faith
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 68. Hello lovely people and thank you for a. opening this email and b. joining me for my weekly writing prompt. These are my…
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The Coaster of Thought
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 67. I’m guilty m’lud of taking the world around me for granted. I look at the wonders of creation and barely give them a…
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Resistance is Futile - Reprise
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 66. The original Resistance is Futile post was written way back in 2017. I moved it to Substack from WordPress in 2020. My own…
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Written with love
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 65. I’ve always loved books, to the extent my cousin and I played at being librarians, lending our books to each other so we…
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All clothed in blue
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 64. Last week, I was flicking through my wardrobe for something to wear and having one of those moments where, despite the…
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I am, therefore I think
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 63.In 1637 René Descartes published his Discourse on the Method in French stating in Latin, Cogito, ergo sum which roughly…
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Lost words
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 62. I love words, the feel of them, the sound of them as they roll around my head or off my tongue. I ponder on the nature of…
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