#Scotland

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...