Today’s #Picture to Inspire Your Imagination: 31/July/21

Young Group on Lyme Regis Bay at Sunset Enjoy!*******************************************************************************These images are intended as a source of entertainment, joy, and inspiration to the imagination.You can view more of my pictures in my Gallery.

Dealing with Difficult Themes in #Fiction

Word cloud Via Wordart In writing science fiction, two areas of uncertainty arise before the start. Assuming it’s not Space Opera, the first barrier is the large number of readers who believe all sci-fi involves space wars, forgetting that at least two of the most brilliant works of literature were also science fiction: Aldous Huxley’s …

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Today’s #Picture to Inspire Your Imagination: 30/July/21

Vapour Trails Enjoy!*******************************************************************************These images are intended as a source of entertainment, joy, and inspiration to the imagination.You can view more of my pictures in my Gallery.

Today’s #Picture to Inspire Your Imagination: 28/July/21

Forest Path #2 Enjoy!*******************************************************************************These images are intended as a source of entertainment, joy, and inspiration to the imagination.You can view more of my pictures in my Gallery.

Today’s #Picture to Inspire Your Imagination: 24/July/21

Packhorse Bridge Enjoy!*******************************************************************************These images are intended as a source of entertainment, joy, and inspiration to the imagination.You can view more of my pictures in my Gallery.

Time and the Conways, by J.B. Priestley: #BookReview.

Stage Play script. This exploration of family unity, loyalty and dishonesty is structured through three acts to use time as a clever ingredient of viewing, and attempting to predict, the future. It depicts a typical upper middle-class family of the era, showing the inherent snobbery, their patchy understanding of the world they occupy, and how …

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Today’s #Picture to Inspire Your Imagination: 23/July/21

Oil on Water #1 Enjoy!*******************************************************************************These images are intended as a source of entertainment, joy, and inspiration to the imagination.You can view more of my pictures in my Gallery.

Today’s #Picture to Inspire Your Imagination: 22/July/21

Narrow Streets in Florence Enjoy!*******************************************************************************These images are intended as a source of entertainment, joy, and inspiration to the imagination.You can view more of my pictures in my Gallery.

Today’s #Picture to Inspire Your Imagination: 21/July/21

Forest Waters #2 Enjoy!*******************************************************************************These images are intended as a source of entertainment, joy, and inspiration to the imagination.You can view more of my pictures in my Gallery.

Today’s #Picture to Inspire Your Imagination: 20/July/21

Michaelangelo Monument in Florence Enjoy!*******************************************************************************These images are intended as a source of entertainment, joy, and inspiration to the imagination.You can view more of my pictures in my Gallery.

Translation: Illuminating Cultural Difference.

Just short of a month ago, I wrote a post about Helen, a Chinese woman, translating some of my stories into her language. My hope was that would place my work before a wider readership. But there has been an unexpected and positive additional outcome.I’m no linguist. But I’ve travelled, both within the land of …

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