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Monthly Archives: February 2015
How to Handle Writing Competition Scams
I’ve rarely entered writing contests but in the first week of November (2014) I decided to take part in a competition through what I believed was a bona fide online organisation, offering not only competitions, but proofreading and editing services. It wasn’t bona fide and here’s how I got my money back. Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged How to deal with Writing Contest Scams, PayPal, Writers Weekly, writing competition scams
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Walking into Love, a Sonnet: The Loving Quark
The Loving Quark
Said Einstein, “into nature look, look deep
and better all things will you understand.”
To look into the heart – the seat
of love – he was, it seemed, imploring man. Continue reading
Posted in Christian writing, spirituality, Walking, Writing
Tagged atom, Christian Writing, Einstein, love, molecule, Petrarch, Poetry, Poetry Writing, quark, Shakespeare, sonnet, Spiritual, Walks, Writing
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The Mysterious Matter of the Hydden Optician
In between eco printing and writing flash fiction, I’ve also been scribbling away at a trine of short stories (with illustrations – mine), that I’m going to publish shortly as an ebook. I put the finishing touches to Leaves, Three Short Tales yesterday morning and gave myself a couple of hours off to catch up with dreadful, and dreaded domestic affairs. Continue reading
Friday Fictioneers 100 Word Flash Fiction Challenge: The Shadowfall Quilt
The Shadowfall Quilt
She’d stitched many quilts. They’d gone to the four corners. She needed now to put away her needle and decided on one final quilt, to represent her life.
In her quilting chair on the veranda, she dreamt. The house across the way was staring at her. From its long black door, a voice said, “the sun never knew how wonderful it was until it fell on the wall of a building.” Continue reading
Walking Rye Harbour
I found this shell (mollusc) while walking the beach at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve last Saturday. Look, it’s a fan and at its centre, another smaller fan. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Inspiration, Printmaking, Science, Walking
Tagged Bi-valve Mollusc, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, Cockle Shells, Coffee Filter Art, Eco Printing, Fauna, Flora, Fossil Record, Molluscs, rust dyeing, Rye Harbour, Vinegar Mordant, Walking, Walking by the Sea, Walks
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Friday Fictioneers 100 Word Story Challenge: DS Squared Et Cetera
DS Squared Et Cetera
“Lovely approach to her tomb.”
“Approach?”
“Maze.”
“The pathways are dead ends.”
She looked. “Meaning?”
“Legend says the maze symbolised the unbridgeable divide between the living and the dead.”
“Why have you brought me here?” Continue reading
Walking and Falling (Salt and Snow)
Snowdrop
snow drop
lamb drop
In snow
salt circles
burns snow
Life flowers Continue reading
Posted in Art, Drawing, Haiku Writing, Imagism, Inspiration, spirituality, Walking
Tagged beach walk, Fauna, flint, Flora, Haiku Writing, Hythe, Imagism, lambing, seaweed stem, Snow, snowdrop, Spiritual, stone circles, Walking, Walking by the Sea, Walks, Wye near Ashford
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Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 