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Tag Archives: thoughts
Quantum Pagan
If there is a god, god is not the ant. God is not forest, or even the multitude of forests. God doesn’t exist on the scale of the infinite. Traditional religion is looking in the wrong place. God isn’t in the infinite, god is in the quantum. Continue reading
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Tagged cyber, Goth, pagan, quantum, quantum pagan, sciencefiction, steampunk, techno-pagan, thoughts, writer
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First World Problems…
What matters is all relative. Half the world’s population worries where’s tomorrow meal will come from, the other half worries about wifi. I’m one of the fortunate half who worry about the latter and ironically end up wincing on to … Continue reading
Posted in amreading, amwriting, indie novels, indie writers, IndieApril, indiewriter, opinion, reads, sci-fi, Uncategorized, writes, writing
Tagged humanity, indie, indiewriter, reads, thoughts, wisdom, writer, writers, writing
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What is Modern Druidry?
It’s the question I started asking when I first came to Druidry about eighteen years ago. I’m still asking it. My blog (www.druidlife.wordpress.com) is mostly me asking, day by day ‘what does this even mean?’ We don’t know much about … Continue reading
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Tagged druidry, humanity, IndieApril, mentalhealth, opinion, pagan, reads, spirituality, the world, thoughts, writer, writerslife, writing
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Insomniac awakenings…
Occasionally, while I lay staring into the darkness at the ceiling I know is above my bed but can’t see – trying and failing to count imaginary ovine flocks – strange thoughts occur to me. This then, is one of … Continue reading
Posted in dreamlands, dystopia, horror, humour, indie, insomnia, mental-health, pointless things of wonderfulness, rant
Tagged humour, insomnia, life, rants, thoughts, wierdtales, witterings
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Them That Ask No Questions…
Readers are seldom aware of just how much research can go into writing a novel. It’s a neat trick of smoke and mirrors most writers perform, in that the research gets hidden beyond plain sight, so the reader never see … Continue reading
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Tagged authors, books, characters, indiebooks, indienovels, indieoctober, indiewriter, reading, reads, research, reviews, steampunk, steampunk fantasy, thoughts
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Fact or Fiction? : Indie October Guest Post From Kate Baucherel
What were the earliest things you learned from reading fiction? These are some of my memories. Aged six, I discovered that scientists could accelerate atomic particles in a cyclotron – for what purpose I had no idea – thanks to … Continue reading
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I don’t know the answer, I barely understand the question: Indie October guest post by Andy Hill
Do you wander around a first world town centre, bemused at how the general population manages to exist even as a rudimentary civilisation? Ever stared out of an aeroplane at the houses, roads and train tracks below, knowing full well … Continue reading
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Tagged funstuff, humanity, humour, indie, indie publishing, indiebooks, indiewriter, opinion, thoughts, writer, writers, writerslife, writing, writingtips
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A Very English Apology…
No matter where they are in the world, an Englishman’s body language is always saying the same thing… ‘We’re so sorry we colonised your country in our imperial majesty, the empire was a terrible thing, glorious of course, so very, … Continue reading
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Indie April#7: Magpies of Misanthropy
It’s Indie April, a celebration of all things Indie, be it novels, movies, music or art. The idea being to encourage interaction between indie creatives, and that most elusive of beasties the wider audience, and it is a time to … Continue reading
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Oh so quotable…
Not done a quote-post for a while, and so to address that error here is a quote-post on a subject close to my heart, that of books… Those wonderful things made of paper that can hold whole universes within them … Continue reading