O is for On My Own – Why we all need time alone
Megan On Top Of The World by Wayne Kelly As Greta Garbo once famously said, “I want to be alone!” Cue sharp intake of breath from those around you as they stare in stunned silence like you’ve just told...
View ArticleP is for Pigeon-Hole! Stop trying to put me in a box!
So many genres, so little time by Wayne Kelly I think we would all agree that the Internet has brought with it a plethora of benefits for both the consumer and the producer of products, music, books...
View ArticleQ is for Quiet. It’s Always The Quiet Ones . . . Being a Writer
Writers – It’s always the quiet ones! As a writer we need to have the ability to disappear in to the background. To observe. To extract meaning from body language, action and reaction. To study human...
View ArticleR is for Red, White and Blue – a song about War.
War Memorial, Bradgate Park by Wayne Kelly I wrote this song a few years ago, not long after Tony Blair left office as UK Prime Minister. At the time it was becoming increasingly clear that he may have...
View ArticleS is for Satisfied and why you shouldn’t be.
The superb actress, Miriam Margolyes In a recent interview with the BBC, eccentric and brilliant actress, Miriam Morgolyes was asked a very simple question: “Are you satisfied?” Miriam has had a very...
View ArticleT is for Thief. There’s no such thing as an original idea.
We’re all guilty of being influenced by the ideas of others. “It’s not where you take things from . . . it’s where you take them to.” The above is a quote from ground-breaking French film maker,...
View ArticleU is for Uncommon Courtesy
No Rude People AllowedPhoto by Wayne Kelly Common courtesy. What is it? Well, for one thing, it certainly isn’t as common as it used to be (I now realise that statement makes me sound about a hundred...
View ArticleX is for X-Ray Music (song with lyrics)
Xray Music was inspired by documentary, ‘How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin’ This song was inspired by a BBC documentary I watched a few years ago called ‘How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin‘. It told...
View ArticleY is for YOU, dear reader!
Having run out of images I decided to post a pic of my daughter instead! Yes, this penultimate A-Z post is dedicated to YOU, the people that actually make the effort to read and comment and share all...
View ArticleZ is for Zero – the word count no one wants to see!
Filling the page is not always easy . . . When writing, keeping a tally of your daily word count can be a great tool to keep up the momentum. My first experience of this was last November, during...
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