Robert C. Day's Blog, page 20
January 17, 2017
York Write What You Like Meetup
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This is a group for anyone interested in creative writing at all levels of skill. I believe that we learn by doing and so I’m looking forward to actively exploring the written word with all comers. I will illustrate elements of creative writing as taught on my MA as well as give people the opportunity to write and share their work. Special emphasis will be given to creative techniques that will enable us to access previously unconscious aspects of the inner landscape.
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Plans for Writing
Plans for writing:
Read a shed-load of books on Creative Writing (done) Start a blog to showcase my writing (done) Write a novel with NaNoWriMo (done) Write something every day for an extended period of time Write another novel withNaNoWriMo (done) Join and attend writing groups in the local area (done) Publish a book on Amazon for the experience (done) Join online writing groups and submit my writing (done) Start a Masters in Creative Writing (done) Start a Meetups Group in the local area (...January 16, 2017
Cold Fingers Warm Heart
I took my gloves off, began to sweat and thus realised that cold fingers do not act like a dog’s tongue – they do not make the body cooler.
I’ve just been in the Caribbean where, for a couple of weeks, I’ve been wearing not much more than shorts and a t-shirt, and sometimes a lot less than that, to counteract the 30C of heat. So when I arrived in the UK to be greeted by 2C I wrapped up warm for my walk to work, specifically – T-shirt, sweater, bigger sweater, fleece and waterproof on my upper...
January 15, 2017
England ‘n’ Ting
This green and pleasant land. View from the train as I head north towards home.
January 13, 2017
Nature ‘n’ Ting
This is in front of my nose right now. Pigeon Point – Tobago.
I Huddle In The 1%
I am sitting in the Caribbean Airlines office waiting for #344 to come around. That is our ticket. The lights flash and #330 appears on the screen – yipee!
Welcome to my holiday in Trinidad & Tobago.
If course I am wondering what I am doing here – this is my nature. Of course she and her two sisters are chatting away and seemingly having the time(s singular or plural – do they each inhabit different times?) of their lives (definitely (probably) plural – they all have different lives. They may...
January 12, 2017
Quick Quote
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“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. ”
– Bob Marley
Breathing In and Out at the Same Time
Take a deep breath and take a deeper one
Then take thethird onethat’sdeeper still
Stretch your chest out and full those lungs
Suck like you’re searching for Jesus in the air.
When you’re full and you can take no more
Hold it there and try to figure out who you are
As you run out of oxygen and mind driftsaway
Stretch upwards and be more than you were.
Spread yourself wildlyinto the stratosphere
And watch your struggling lungs fromout way, way, way out there
Stayoutside the gasping grasping gra...
January 11, 2017
Beaches
Today has been a day of beaches – five of them to be exact. I tried to enjoy them – truly I did.
My favourite was after dark where skinny dipping was threatened Next came the one where we almost ate ice-cream, and would have had the place been open There was one which I escaped from because it was close enough to the hotel to walk; literally I wrote three pages about how I wanted to commune with nature on another beach, but was unable to because of my … nature The first one was the worst bec...Too Much Mosquitoes
Seen on a wall outside someone’s door in Tobago.
