It’s the end of April CAN YOU BELIEVE IT so today’s prompt is a handful of simple questions:What are you proud of writing this month?How are you going to celebrate—no matter how big or small the
Read more...As with yesterday, if this is too painful to answer, ignore it. Go back and write a haiku or scribble a few furious words about this prompt.But if you fancy digging in, go for it.My dad is a brilliant
Read more...I have a tricksy relationship with my mum. It's not as close as I’d like it to be.But I love her very much.It’s funny because we have to reconcile this idea of our parents when we’re kids—the
Read more...A question to muse upon today, Sliding Doors style.In an alternate universe, what might you be up to?Me, I think I’d be a marine biologist.That’s what I wanted to do when I was a kid; I don’t know
Read more...One of my favourite podcasts at the moment is Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.It’s so fun. JVN is one of the Fab Five from Queer Eye, in case you didn’t know, and I love him because like me
Read more...Today’s writing prompt: write a haiku.About anything.The haiku we write aren’t really the same as what Japanese poets originally produced—if we’re staying true to form, we’d write about pastoral
Read more...Did you know the ice-cream sundae was invented because of religion?So we have misery bears to thank for a delicious treat.(Or at least that’s one explanation—there seem to be several origin stories...)Back
Read more...Again, I may have an agenda of my own here—I’m always on the lookout for another podcast to add to my listens.Although I already have so many I can’t possibly ever listen to them all.Here are a
Read more...Simple question today: what’s your sport of choice?Maybe it’s a sport you play yourself—or a sport you watch avidly.I don’t really watch any sports—definitely not on TV, and not really live
Read more...What’s the most dangerous thing you’ve ever done?Maybe it was safe danger, like doing a skydive (I’ve done one of those).Or maybe it was real-real danger, like breaking into an abandoned mine and
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