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Dougie
Oct 7, 20194 min read
Reality Writes -- Brief 7 -- Write the perfect rejection letter
Like Ethan Hawke’s messages in Mission Impossible – sort of -- (but with fewer car chases and no lethal assassins) -- the daily writing...
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Dougie
Oct 5, 20194 min read
Reality Writes -- Brief 5 -- Translate an informative text into another language
This may be a bit of a departure. We are asked to engage in an act of translation. Given my schoolboy French and Beginner Level Japanese...
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Dougie
Oct 4, 20194 min read
Reality Writes -- Brief 4 -- Write an article based on researching the day you were born
The degree to which one has a low threshold for boredom (as my Auntie Anne reminded me the other day) can be revealed in the oddest ways....
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Dougie
Oct 4, 20192 min read
Reality Writes -- Brief 3 -- Send a birthday wish
It is not within me this evening to respond precisely to today’s brief, to follow the instruction exactly or take inspiration from the...
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Dougie
Oct 2, 20194 min read
Reality Writes -- Brief 2 -- Introduce yourself
Who am I? To paraphrase: if you want all that Holden Caulfield, “David Copperfield kind of crap” then – unlike the formerly famous,...
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Dougie
Oct 1, 20195 min read
Reality Writes -- Brief 1 -- Why write?
Why am I here? Why start again with another of these daily writing challenges? Why write at all, Douglas? In part I’m here because I’ve...
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Dougie
Jan 17, 20191 min read
And it's not always about you either, Douglas
My brother Joe -- who lives in Scotland --- was awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours list by Her Maj. The gong could never do justice...
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Dougie
Jan 12, 20192 min read
People you meet on the way to becoming who you are, Part 1: Martin Currie
We met in 1975 or 76 through the Broad Left group at Stirling University. My life was never the same again. I usually phoned home each 12...
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