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Hi, thanks for dropping in. Great to see you! I use this blog as a writer’s notebook; you can see my work as it’s being written.
LATEST POSTS
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Holding On – A Story of Loss, Courage and Friendship
About six months ago, I deced to write Ant’s story. It’s been rolling around in my head for a long time. At one stage I wrote a screenplay for a short film based on the same plot. I got some great feedback, but I didn’t continue with it, because life happened, and writing is really,
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The four ugly frames – Reframing memories part 2
I’ve been thinking lately about ‘reframing memories.’ (You can read an earlier post here.) My thoughts come from the idea that the colour of a frame will often hilight details of a similar colour inside an artwork. For example, a red frame will draw the viewer’s attention to the red elements and details the painter
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In silver and blue – Reframing memories part 1
I’ve been thinking for the last few weeks about “reframing” memories. You’ve been given a painting on bare canvas. It’s highly detailed, and the artist has used a wide colour pallet. In fact, there’s so much going on in the painting that it’s hard to know what to look at. You want to mount the
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The Hard, Lonely Work
I had already been at the task for the better part of an hour, and I was about six words in. The libary was closing at ten o’clock, and it was a race against time and against my mental reserves.
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