I have a cloudy memory but I’ve always been drowning in cotton candy words. I tried to put my finger on what I needed to say, only to end up adrift, or worse; shooting the messenger. Nothing was ever shipshape and Bristol fashion, and so often I would beat a dead horse.
Category Archives: Short Stories
DAY 6- 30 Day Writing Challenge
Are you listening?
Brave New World Revisited
‘Fifty percent of all books have more words than Brave New World and fifty percent have less. It is a very good book’
DAY 5- 30 Day Writing Challenge
We can share a tic tac. We can share red velvet.
DAY 4 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
So I guess I’m on a precipice. I like that. A big goddamn word. Like plateau. How do you like that fanciness?
DAY 3 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
The facts that consume us define us.
DAY 2 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
Today’s challenge comes from Chris Hewitt who challenged me to write about what my dog Pablo was thinking. My wife and I got Pablo about eight weeks ago. He came from a rescue centre. He’s a two-year-old pug/ border terrier cross. He’s a lovely boy who is very affectionate, and extremely sociable. He’s learnt soContinueContinue reading “DAY 2 – 30 Day Writing Challenge”
DAY 1- 30 Day Writing Challenge
Each wave crashed a beat matching the throbbing pulse that he would seek to cease. Each ebb taking away nothing, and leaving him with burden.
30 Day Writing Challenge
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Speed Reading
The world record for most words read per minute was set by Stephen Berg and stands at twenty-five thousand words per minute.
The Gutenberg Printing Press
There have been over one hundred and thirty million books published in modern history. Every year that number grows by an average of two and a half million.
The Spoken Word
This week, I said four hundred and six words.
Brave New World
‘The shortest story is six words. Largely attributed to Ernest Hemingway. The longest is Artemene by Georges De Scudery. It’s One million nine hundred and fifty four thousand three hundred words’
Word Count
There is no Dewy Decimal system here. These books are not sorted by genre or author. They are not arranged by colour or size. I would never sort anything by date of publication, or date of anything else for that matter.
The Mime Artist
I had been given the keys. I couldn’t play the keys, but I had been given the keys.