Mindset (4)

Mental faculties useful to authors.

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The UK Education System

Overview For Non-English Readers I know it's a bit presumptious that I have any readers, but just in case there are I have included a brief description of the UK education system. The first oddity is that private schools are referred to as Public schools,…

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Is a lizard just a very small flightless dragon
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Dragons

The first dragon I remember was Puff the magic dragon. It's a song and it was on children's radio programs when I was a kid. Puff was a rascal of a dragon, friendly to children and loved games. He also loved a bit of chaos,…

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Cactus teeth
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Author Stuckness

Author's get stuck sometimes, just can't get a handle on things, just can't see the way forward in a story. Well let's face it, everybody gets stuck sometimes. It's that feeling of knowing what you have to do but not knowing where to start, not…

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Other Influences

When you start to identify yourself as a writer you become accustomed to thinking about writing, about writing tools, about creative expression. The whole nine yards. Somehow the allure of being an author takes over from anything else that you ever did. You forget about…

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