old files
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I, Corporation
I almost cannot believe that I do not have a post or any content relating to my other “novel in progress” (or rather more accurately stalled and unsure if it will ever get picked up again) I, Corporation. It was supposed to be my third book, and a deliberate break in style – an attempt…
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Untitled Everywoman
Back when I was a LOT younger, I wrote the lyrics to a handful of songs. As with a lot of my writing, going back and doing a re-read of them now with the benefit of hindsight and being a trans person, I can see me, the real female me, trying to tell the old…
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Another blast from the past
Following on from the Pick-a-Path stuff I found in my old files, I also came across a piece I’d written back in December 2016, when Brexit had not yet utterly consumed UK politics. I thought it might be amusing to use the “12 Days of Christmas” format for a whimsical (and apolitical) take on events…
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Ancient Wisdom
I was doing some housekeeping on my (somewhat scattered) writer’s notes recently, and found a file from 2003 called wisdomquotes.rtf(!). Opening it, it was a bunch of ‘quotes’ from fictional fantasy scholars / characters (as opposed to ACTUAL fantasy characters 🙂 from when I was kicking around the idea of writing a Pick-a-Path style adventure…
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Atlas’ Shoulder
The idea for the first line came from a musing while on the train to work one morning (where I do my best thinking) about what real-world problems might afflict fictional / mythical beings and beasties. I’d like to say the rest was easy (you try rhyming cruelty!) but I got there in the end.…
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The Ten Consumements
A little while ago I thought it might be fun to play with the Ten Commandments, from the point of view of consumerism, and the ‘supremacy of the market’ kind of thing, you know, as an exercise in form and writing to a particular brief. Â Plus being what my boss would call a ‘dangerous lefty’…
Beckbridge - sometime scribbler 