Juiced On Writing

Even the Sound of ‘Procrastination’ Makes Me Want to Muck Around

The sound of the word ‘procrastination’ just makes me want to procrastinate. It’s five syllables for a start. If sitting there, with the sudden realisation that I am, indeed, in the middle of a mugmire* of procrastination, it takes me a further several moments to sound the name out in my own head. Pro-crast-i-na-tion. Say [...]

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The Ecological Warrior, er, Writer

As a New Zealander, I was brought up to always consider the environment. In my childhood, tourism and horticulture were big commodities in my home country – and to maintain both we were enveloped as children in a doctrine to ‘look after’ our environment, watch out for fires, to not litter, to not waste. We [...]

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Writing Seriously – Or Not

Subtitled : Between a Rock and a Hardplace – My Love of Research as Against Actual Writing. A Trail of Links: Tom Colvin just spoke about me – and this blog on his own, Becoming a Writer Seriously. He picked up my bookmark link – which came through from a Diigo post onto this blog, [...]

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