• A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore. I opened the doors and stepped out on the balcony. The view was amazing, but it was the air that took my breath away Writing Prompt Expanded This week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt is all about comparison.…

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  • Planner and journal vlog update. A look into my bullet journal(s) and junk journal. I seem to have run into a problem with my set-up. Instead of capturing things in my ‘daily’ journal, I have been accruing a number of scrap pieces of paper. It feels like I am being called to an all-in-one journal……

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  • A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore. I squeezed, nothing. I pressed again, still nothing. Now, I was getting desperate Writing Prompt Expanded This week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt is about frustration. Now you might feel there is enough frustration in your life already…

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  • This week’s vlog shows how I create my weekly bullet journal layout. I use stickers, scraps of paper and plenty of glue stick. I show how I go from a blank page to a weekly layout for my current bullet journal set-up. And I chat as I go along. Please subscribe if you like the…

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  • A Fiction Writing Prompt about loss to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore. The word never is often used and frequently said in haste, but its real meaning was clear to me now Writing Prompt Expanded This week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt is about loss. We’ve looked at…

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  • Proto music

    I have moments of lucidity. These moments concern all sorts of things. I once had one such moment concerning this blog. In it, I thought of writing posts that related to the day. Saturday could be about stationery, Sunday spirituality and so on. Monday was to be about music.

    Lucidity doesn’t last for long. Plans for this blog don’t tend to last long either. However, I find myself here on a Monday about to talk about music. In particular, some music that I have written and have recorded.

    This afternoon I have been mixing and putting some final touches to three new pieces. They will be part of an EP that I’ll soon be sharing. All three tracks are inspired and influenced by three artists who I loved as a young teen… and still enjoy listening to today. John Foxx, Thomas Dolby and Gary Numan are the inspiration. Originally I had planned to record a collection of ten or more tracks. However, that moment of lucidity disappeared as well.

    The EP will be called Protomatic Renaissance and all being well will be on all the major streaming platforms. I’ll let you have a sneak peek, or listen, in the next few days but didn’t want to miss the opportunity of actually sharing something on Music Monday.

    As long as my lucid moments continue I’ll be sharing what I am creating here with a little more regularity than I have been. But that’s the problem with lucidity, it comes and goes… just like the creative muse.


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