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This is a tie-in with my latest YouTube video about a roll-the-dice game for writers to use in developing fictional characters.

Do you make New Year Resolutions? In this post, published Monday on the website of my Writers’ Group, I share my writerly resolutions – and the secret of how I keep them.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and my best wishes for 2025. Here’s hoping it won’t be quite as interesting as it’s shaping up to be. (Thinking of the supposedly Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.)

My ‘best poetry in 2024’ list, for reading in 2025: why I make it, how I make it and where I find the books I eventually buy.

I am delighted to announce the publication of my first magazine and collection of my writings. You can view a part of it and buy copies by following the link below. https://www.blurb.com/b/12087595-the-supercargo-s-magazine Pricing: Print magazine €15 (or equivalent); PDF €5 (or equivalent). A word or two of warning! The publishers and marketplace are Blurb. You … More…

X marks the spot where Elon Musk stabbed the Twitter bluebird, which acts here as a metaphor for the destruction of our world by big money.