Writing Prompt #5
“I can fix the world with one bullet, here’s how…”
You put the lime in the coconut…
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Writing Collaboration #1 – The World On Your Plate
From field to mouth we thoughtlessly consume. Everything arrives at us pre-packed and in infinite supply. This disposable cornucopia is ours to waste. Yet, what goes into the food we eat?
DAY 25 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
The warning bell sounds. The last day for humankind on earth is finally here. And as the alarming scream of a dying planet intensifies, smothering the groans of those who would greedily scoff in the face of reason; no lessons will ever be learnt. If we had the chance we’d do it all again.
DAY 24 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
My life has become an algorithm. A predictable spreadsheet of formulaic transactions that signify nothing. I code and I code and I help technology flourish. I drive the future, but not the present. Not my present. Zeros and ones are not heartbeats.
DAY 10- 30 Day Writing Challenge
Her footsteps crunching through crisp autumn leaves beat in time to the thud of her heart and the rasp of her breath. The rhythm grew pace as she corned the outer rim of the dusk soaked forest. She had left leaving too late, and now panic was in for the night.
Day 9 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
Today’s challenge comes from my wife, Chrissie, and it’s a bit different to the other prompts I’ve had…She’s asked me to write her an apology (for drunkenly keeping her awake… Read More »Day 9 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
DAY 7- 30 Day Writing Challenge
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.
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’
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 King James Bible
The King James bible has seven hundred and sixty-three thousand, one hundred and thirty-seven words. Between March the fourth two thousand and two and March the fifth two thousand and two, I read for forty one hours and twenty three minutes. No sleep. No food. I used the toilet twice.
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