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Lakeside Writers – Story Two

Here is my entry for my second week at the writers group. Prompt: The smell of burnt sugar. Title: Sweet Hypochondria In the labyrinth of my mind, where the lines between genius and lunacy are drawn in disappearing ink, I found myself teetering on the precipice of an olfactory enigma. [read more…]

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Lakeside Writers Group

A group of locals, me being one of them, have come together to create a writers group. It’s fun. Someone comes up with a prompt, we then go away and come back the next week with a 1000 word (max) short story. I’m enjoying it so far and the people [read more…]

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Firsts

November 4th 2014 saw me give my first ever poem at a Toastmasters meeting. It was at Corrib Toastmasters and I was desperate to impress so I wrote one. A few years later this poem became quite special to me as it went on to inspire a speech that did [read more…]

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Twelve Reasons Why I Love Her

A few years ago, more than I can be bothered to count, I decided I’d had quite an interesting life and would write my autobiography. I wrote quite a few chapters and kept going back and editing them and padding them out a bit. I took out some stories, added [read more…]

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Firsts

While searching through old files on my laptop I found this.  This was the first poem I ever read at Toastmasters.  I remember trying to find a poem I liked but couldn’t chose from the vast array so in the end I wrote my own. One of the things that [read more…]

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Writing 1.2

EDIT: I started this again. See here: https://www.twelvereasonswhy.com/couch-to-80k-week-one-day-two/ Day two of the writing course. We had to write words we like and don’t like. I struggled with this as words I don’t like, other than “okey-dokey”, isn’t something I’ve ever really thought of. And I have my reason for not [read more…]

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Writing 1.1

EDIT: I started this again. See the new entry here: https://www.twelvereasonswhy.com/couch-to-80k-week-one-day-one/ I’ve started a writing course. It’s called “Couch to 80K” by a guy called Tim Clare. I’ve about five different books started but lack the motivation to finish them. I’m hoping this gives me that. You have to spend [read more…]

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500 Things

A while ago I was challenged to write 100 things about myself. I like a challenge so I thought I’d make it 500 and what a perfect way to start this journal. I hate my first name yet it’s the one I hear most of all! I believe I would [read more…]