#influences

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 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 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...