Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 08/Sept/21

On 08/09/202105/09/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography8 Comments

Pictures for your entertainment, joy, and, if you like, to inspire you to create something with words or images. Whether that’s a poem, story, play, novel, memory, essay, painting, drawing, sculpture, or another photograph is up to you. But please don’t feel obliged: you can simply enjoy the pictures. I’ve deliberately left the image untitled …

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Revealing the Cover.

On 08/09/202108/09/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Creative Writer, Fiction, Progress8 Comments

Too revealing? There’s a good solid reason; it’s based on the story. You’ll notice the guy is also revealed. In fact, all six characters who star in this new novel find themselves in a situation where clothing is a low priority, or certainly should be. After all, wearing the clothes they normally sleep in, they’re …

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Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 07/Sept/21

On 07/09/202107/09/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography15 Comments

These pictures are here to entertain, bring joy, and, if you wish, inspire you to create something with words or images. Whether that is a poem, story, play, novel, memory, essay, painting, drawing, sculpture, or another photograph is entirely up to you. But don’t feel obliged: you can simply enjoy the pictures. I’ve deliberately left …

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Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 06/Sept/21

On 06/09/202101/09/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Photography11 Comments

These pictures are here to entertainment, bring joy, and, if you wish, inspire you to create something with words or images. Whether that is a poem, story, play, novel, memory, essay, painting, drawing, sculpture, or another photograph is entirely up to you. But don’t feel obliged: you can simply enjoy the pictures. I’ve deliberately left …

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Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 05/Sept/21

On 05/09/202101/09/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Photography7 Comments

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Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 04/Sept/21

On 04/09/202101/09/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Photography3 Comments

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Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 03/Sept/21

On 03/09/202101/09/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Photography2 Comments

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Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 02/Sept/21

On 02/09/202101/09/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography12 Comments

These pictures are here for your entertainment, joy, and, if you wish, inspiration to create something with words or images. Whether that results in a poem, story, play, novel, memory, essay, painting, drawing, sculpture, or another photograph is entirely up to you. But don’t feel obliged: you can simply enjoy the pictures. I’ve deliberately left …

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Today’s #PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 01/Sept/21

On 01/09/202130/08/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Photography12 Comments

These images are here for your entertainment, joy, and, if you wish, inspiration to create something with words or images. Whether that results in a poem, story, play, novel, memory, essay, painting, drawing, sculpture, or another photograph is entirely up to you. But don’t feel obliged: you can simply enjoy the pictures. I’ve deliberately left …

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Heaven’s Mirror, by Graham Hancock & Santha Faiia: #BookReview.

On 31/08/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Creative Writer, opinion, Reading, Review4 Comments

332 Pages Nonfiction Hardback Subtitled ‘Quest for the Lost Civilisation’, this book led to a major TV series on the UK’s Channel 4 network. Published in 1998, some of the content may now be a little out of date, as archaeological work is constantly updating information based on finds. The book is an attempt to …

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The Time has Come!

On 14/08/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Creative Writer, Fiction, Progress, Reading, Romance10 Comments

I wrote it last year. Started the long, and somewhat convoluted, process of editing, both as self-editor initially and then with my publisher’s editors, early this year. We now have a launch date for my latest novel. So, I suppose I’d better let you all know what it’s called, especially now this information was released …

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Dealing with Difficult Themes in #Fiction

On 31/07/202131/07/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Creative Writer, Fiction, Progress6 Comments

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

On 23/07/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Creative Writer, Fiction, Literature, Reading, Review2 Comments

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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Translation: Illuminating Cultural Difference.

On 20/07/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Creative Writer, Fiction, Grammar, Progress, Romance8 Comments

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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The Nature of Photographs, by Stephen Shore: #BookReview.

On 18/07/2021 By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Creative Writer, opinion, Photography, Reading, Review4 Comments

136 pagesPhotography Criticism & Essays This is a primer intended for students studying photography at university, but it has something useful to say to anyone interested in what photography truly is and how it can affect our view of the world. It sports numerous photographs to illustrate the textual points made, and explains how photography, …

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