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Project 1: the cook book

So, a good couple of weeks after I decided on what I was going to write…I started. A cookbook for us seemed a good place to start, capturing the things I cook the most, so that, in time, others can cook them too. Being something for us, it can have all my bad puns, as …

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Posted byalisonOctober 22, 2012January 26, 2013Posted inWritingLeave a comment on Project 1: the cook book

On those kind of days

On the days when there is little energy to write, write. On the days when you are keeping going minute by minute, write. On the days when you are unsure, write. On the days where your main task is to observe another growing, Glowing – in the moment, Write.

Posted byalisonOctober 22, 2012January 26, 2013Posted inWritingLeave a comment on On those kind of days

Riding my writing bike

Not a lot to say this morning. It’s day 21. I am certainly getting the experience of writing every day, and some of it’s good, some of it is more akin to pedalling. Every now and then a metaphor comes along, and I can free wheel for a while. I’m not a huge rider of …

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Posted byalisonOctober 21, 2012January 26, 2013Posted inWritingLeave a comment on Riding my writing bike

Footstep phantoms

From time to time I am asked, perfectly straight forwardly, what super power I would like to have. At this point, I would like the ability to see old footprints on pavements, charting where I’ve walked on familiar routes. At certain stages of life, we seem to repeat the same journeys all the time. Home …

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Posted byalisonOctober 19, 2012January 26, 2013Posted inWritingLeave a comment on Footstep phantoms

End of book despondency

I struck a deal. I got time off twice in one day, took to my bed and read. In great gulps, the way I used to read, when I took multiple books out of the library on a Saturday, and had read half of them by the same evening. This kind of reading is hard …

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Posted byalisonOctober 18, 2012January 26, 2013Posted inWritingLeave a comment on End of book despondency

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I'm a copywriter based in Edinburgh, Scotland. I love writing about food, books, travel and things that make me smile.

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