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The Shunned
Mallory watched as the man died. He wasn’t as old as his haggard face looked, but his 37-year-old body had been broken by the ravages of their forsaken existence. Each gurgling breath was weaker, less...
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How Odyssey Reignited My Passion for Elite Dangerous
This is my personal review of Elite Dangerous Odyssey, and I make no apologies that it is unambiguously positive. For me, Elite Dangerous has been revitalised and revolutionised by the addition of...
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When Life Gives You Lemons
Life. We’ve all got one. Until we haven’t. A succession of challenging life events has brought me to a tipping point. The last decade has seen the end of my ambulance career due to back injury, the...
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Novel Blog #1: Distraction, Discipline and Writing in Wagars
It’s been a week since the kids went back to school and I’ve been able to resume my ambition to write a complete novel. It’s a running joke among writers that we are world-class procrastinators easily...
View ArticleNovel Blog #2: Long Covid vs Writing
When I decided to plunge naively into attempted professional authordom, I had originally intended to write a weekly blog to report my progress. However, it is only now, at the end of week three that...
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Novel Blog #3: Milestones, Millstones, the Spectre of Uncertainty and the...
I’ve just realised it’s been nearly two months since I blogged about my novel progress. It’s funny, over the weeks I’d thought of plenty of things to share about the experience so far (and honestly...
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Novel Blog #4: It’s World Book Day and I’ve Finished* Mine!
It’s World Book Day. At least, I hope it is, or I should probably expect a concerned phone call from my kids’ school after they went in dressed as Alice in Wonderland and a Nazgul from Lord of the...
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Michael’s First Legal Pint
It’s hard to know what to say on a day like today. My nephew Michael would have been 18. After spending the last year writing about him in a fictional sense, it’s difficult to come back to the reality...
View ArticleNovel Blog #5: Unicorns, Wild Geese, Golden Snitches (or The Hunt for a...
It’s been several months since I finished my novel. It feels like a lifetime, but I have little to show for it aside from the satisfaction of having written a whole 85,000-word metaphysical fantasy...
View ArticleThe Least Worst Decisions
When I started blogging about healthcare issues over a decade ago, my motivation was to shine a light on the failings I had witnessed in over a decade working for an NHS ambulance trust. I managed that...
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