davidwordworker

WHAT ARE YOU WRITING? What are you seeing, or doing, right now that could make a good piece of writing?Julie and I are sitting in The Paddle Steamer in Largs. If I wanted to write about people - I'm surrounded by them. If ...

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I was talking to the writing group about how overheard snippets of conversation might inspire creativity. Here's mine.
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I have in the backpack beside me right now. Seems I carry it around with me :-)

Beautiful way to describe it!

That's a life-long happy memory right there!

Theresa Munoz wrote about archives and reminded me of this little box.
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Not in the area. In Scotland. But... go, you!

On watching the window-fitters at work -

First poetry book in a while that I haven’t just skimmed through, picking out a few gems. This is a book to go back to, to spend time with, to befriend.

When I saw my first story in print on this page in The Sunday Post, I thought I might be able to get another dozen - at most.
A thousand Sundays later, I'm still at it. Still finding the beauty in life and the good in people. I am so thankful for the world it has shown me.
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Pretty much every book I could get was my favourite. What I remember better is all the places I found to read them. In the shoe cupboard, in the loft, under a tree in an overgrown garden, in a shed in a builder's yard where the roof had blown off...

I sat down to write with half an idea, telling myself, 'Lets see if this is anything.' It's an exciting feeling!

I see him on a summer's day
sitting on a log
ice cream around his mouth
Elastoplast on his knee
a daisy for his mum...
The three-year-old buried under sixty-one years of worldly cares, laughs, and shouts, "Hey! We're still here!"

I read Serpico back in the seventies and was determined to root out corruption in my little town :-)

Ohhh! God bless the Scholastic Book Fair :-)

Saw your suggestion on FB. I have a Blue-sky account and thought this might be a good first thing to do with it 😀