Tag: slow writing
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Slow Writing: Statistics
75% of statistics are made up, did you know? Chase them; you’ll soon spiral down a rabbit hole of high claims and overheard rumours. It’s hard to know what’s really real any more. Numbers numbers numbers, one or two digits shaping how we view our world this day. 50.6%: the majority believes. Delete mind, curiosity, SELF – you […]
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Slow Writing: The Unfortunate Alchemist
And then, at the very moment that Charles had thought he’d cracked it, the crockpot began to smoke quite disconcertingly. Who would have thought alchemic enlightenment could be so evasive? For poor Charles, the process was yet a veritable maze of dead ends, trapdoors and coal cellars. To think that he’d held the secret in […]
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Slow Writing Is Back!
Sir, if I may: these shrewd words of yours – which have impressed us much – serve to further our cause not a jot. Half have left our heads, a full quarter have stood as garnish…why, I do believe our party is replete and sated after your canapé tableau of a speech. Moving uncomfortably swiftly […]
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Truthers
And so it was, in the first pale hours of a year just barely opening its eyes, that minds were altered and perspectives surgically skewed. Seismic, not the gradual drip drip drip that leads to a natural shift. An abrupt CRUNCH of horrible realisation: disillusionment extreme. Not fair, not right, not just – not anything. Truth. Whether you can bear […]
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When I Need a Quick Word Fix
When I can’t really be arsed to write, or I want to write but haven’t thought about what, I do little challenges. Most often that’s Slow Writing, which you may have seen from me before. Six sentences, each of which must contain a proper noun, a question, a semi-colon or any other GCSE English titbit. […]
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