91 Posts Tagged "Writing"

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School & Office Supplies

NomadWarMachine on September 12, 2026

Shark Pens flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Fountain Pens flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Show us the old school office supplies you regularly use for school or the office. (Digital devices need not apply.) Yuo don’t get much more old school than a fountain pen, and I use mine for all my writing. You can see some of them at the top of […]

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Group post: Staying Motivated

NomadWarMachine on August 25, 2026August 26, 2026

This week’s group post asks us about our motivation to blog, and Krikket gives us a set of prompts. Here they are, with my answers. Q: What tricks do you use to keep yourself motivated when something feels impossible? Bricolage. Roughly -breaking things down into managable chunks and keeping check lists and other tricks to keep me realising that I am moving forward. Q: What are your blogging goals? Do you think participating in Blaugust is getting you closer to […]

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Story Prompt Generator

NomadWarMachine on January 12, 2026March 3, 2026

Story for today’s TDC Story Prompt Generator flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Wandering through the desert looking for a home Freda the Friendly Ghost came upon an oasis. As she looked around in its nooks and crannies she found a shimmering cloak. Maybe this will help me to keep warm, she whispered. As she spoke the cloak lifted up like a magic carpet and she knew if she stepped onto it, she […]

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Blog Post Title Generator

NomadWarMachine on November 28, 2025March 3, 2026

Today’s TDC asks us to Use the Portent Title Generator to randomly generate a title about DS106…then WRITE THAT POST! So I did. Amusingly I got this prompt Portent Title Generator flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Amusing, that is, as I usually complete the activity soon after it is published at 10am my time, but today I’ve been caught up in meetings and with workmen, so have only just sat down to look at […]

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Blog Post Title Generator

NomadWarMachine on November 28, 2025March 3, 2026

Today’s TDC asks us to Use the Portent Title Generator to randomly generate a title about DS106…then WRITE THAT POST! So I did. Amusingly I got this prompt Portent Title Generator flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Amusing, that is, as I usually complete the activity soon after it is published at 10am my time, but today I’ve been caught up in meetings and with workmen, so have only just sat down to look at […]

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On The Letterhead

NomadWarMachine on November 6, 2025March 3, 2026

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How I found the Daily Create

NomadWarMachine on November 3, 2025March 3, 2026

Creative Bomb flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license I found out about the Daily Create because I became part of an online community. As I’ve written before, in 2014 I signed up for an online experience organised by Dave Cormier called Rhizomatic Learning – The community is the curriculum which I thought was going to be about Deleuze and Guattari, and even though it wasn’t I met a bunch of great people and am […]

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Busy Bees

NomadWarMachine on September 13, 2025March 3, 2026

248/365 Busy bees flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license I love making postcards. Doodling ideas on paper, then drawing them on blank cards, looking through my spreadsheet of names and addresses, writing a message on each, adding stamps and taking to the postbox. A ritual that relaxes me, makes me feel close to the friends I am writing to, helps me to forget about the world around. This week posted a dozen cards […]

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Blogging as an academic practice

NomadWarMachine on July 11, 2025March 4, 2026

Percolating ideas flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license I’ve been enjoying dipping in and out of the “On Writing” series that Jim Groom’s been hosting on Reclaim TV, although I’ve not been able to watch them live as they usually stream at 5pm on a Friday, by which time I am off line and off to the pub to meet friends. However, luckily they are also recorded, so I can catch up at […]

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Academic Book Chapters

NomadWarMachine on July 9, 2025

Every time I have an academic book chapter published I promise myself that I will never do it again, because it takes so long from first submitting an expression of interest to finally seeing it published. But then I forget, and see a call for chapters that interests me, and before I realise what I am doing I’ve committed myself to the process again. But, on the other hand, there’s something really fulfilling about seeing the final publication and reading […]

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The seven stages of writing

NomadWarMachine on May 27, 2025

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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The seven stages of writing

NomadWarMachine on May 27, 2025

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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My blogging journey

NomadWarMachine on April 16, 2025

Nearly there flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I started my blog on 17th July 2012, originally as a WordPress.com hosted site. I blogged sporadically about conferences I’d attended, bits of philosophy that interested me (at the time I was a tutor in Philosophy as well as a learning technologist) and other random thoughts. Looking back at it in order to write this post I can see that right from the beginning I was using […]

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My blogging journey

NomadWarMachine on April 16, 2025

word cloud with words from my thesis title I started my blog on 17th July 2012, originally as a WordPress.com hosted site. I blogged sporadically about conferences I’d attended, bits of philosophy that interested me (at the time I was a tutor in Philosophy as well as a learning technologist) and other random thoughts. Looking back at it in order to write this post I can see that right from the beginning I was using this as a way to […]

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Blogging Questions Challenge

NomadWarMachine on February 20, 2025

Nobody’s asked me, but that’s never stopped me from having an opinion, so here goes. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I feel that I should say something deep or profound, but actually I can’t remember. I really started blogging regularly during #rhizo14 though, as that gave me a community to blog with and motivation to blog. So blame Dave. What platform are you using to manage your blog and why do you use it? WordPress. I […]