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…]
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…]
Many years ago there was a young man named Simon who had an unusual hobby. He was obsessed with finding the grave of the great wizard Merlin and raising him from the dead. Although most scholars considered Merlin to be nothing but a myth or an amalgamation of a few [read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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