17 Posts from May 2025

#TDC, Open Participants 2021, synonyms, The Network

Unparalleled Misalignments

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An excellent Daily Create today: Unparalleled Misalignments are “pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other.” Did you see what we did there in the title of today’s Daily Create? Ricki Heicklen has the market cornered on this, but put your own creativity to work and generate (old style brain powered) your own. Create one and then use it in authoritative message. e.g.  Making an unparalleled misalignment for that […]

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Niebuhr, Open Participants 2021, Serenity Prayer, The Network

The seven stages of writing

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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, “Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart, and write.” Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. I used to agonise over how I wrote, because it seemed to be so disorganised, so messy, so … inefficient. And then, at some point in my thesis write up, I realised that there was no point in worrying about the things I could not change, as Niebuhr’s Serenity Prayer advises. It was then […]

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Niebuhr, Open Participants 2021, The Network

The seven stages of writing

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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, “Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart, and write.” Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. I used to agonise over how I wrote, because it seemed to be so disorganised, so messy, so … inefficient. And then, at some point in my thesis write up, I realised that there was no point in worrying about the things I could not change, as Niebuhr’s Serenity Prayer advises. It was then […]

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Open Participants 2021, The Network

Castle in the Sky

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to: Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”) I found a doodle I had done of a castle castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license and uploaded it to Lunapic, choosing a ‘floating’ filter Castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license […]

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Lunapic, Open Participants 2021, The Network

Castle in the Sky

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Today’s Daily Create asks us to: Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”) I found a doodle I had done of a castle castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license and uploaded it to Lunapic, choosing a ‘floating’ filter Castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license […]

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Open Participants 2021, The Network

Ross Priory

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After a busy few months at work it was lovely to get away this week. Niall booked the Lochside Cottage at Ross Priory for a few days and we drove up after lunch on Monday. An oyster catcher was watching us when we arrived. Oyster Catcher flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license and we really didn’t need binoculars to see it Lochside Cottage flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license or […]

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Open Participants 2021, The Network

Ross Priory

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After a busy few months at work it was lovely to get away this week. Niall booked the Lochside Cottage at Ross Priory for a few days and we drove up after lunch on Monday. An oyster catcher was watching us when we arrived. Oyster Catcher flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license and we really didn’t need binoculars to see it Lochside Cottage flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license or […]

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