WordPress Daily Prompt Thing - Name

Bloganuary writing promptWrite about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc. View all responses Well, let’s start with the Google description of my name: “Meaning: rock, rocky. Craig is a masculine name of Scottish, Gaelic, and Welsh origins. Coming from the Gaelic word creag, this name translates to “rock” or “rocky.” It also comes from the word “crag,” which describes a…

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WordPress Daily Prompt Thing - Favourite Animal

Finally, a question I can get behind! What's the best animal, categorically?

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WordPress Daily Prompt Thing - Crazy Business Idea

Okay, so, hear me out...

Daily writing promptCome up with a crazy business idea.View all responses Okay, so, hear me out here… Do you have pets? Do you like your pets? Do you love those cute little critters and want them to lead good, long, happy lives? Do you? Of course you do, because you are a responsible human being with respect for your fellow creatures. Maybe you even appreciate animal memes, such as the one…

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WordPress Daily Prompt Thing - An Item From Youth

Find out all about a cool lil guy from my childhood!

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it? Okay, this one is going to be fun! When I was six years old back at the beginning of the 90s, I was super into the idea of Halloween. My mum had been shopping while I was at school (back when school was cool) and had picked up a particularly awesome piece of Grade A Halloween tat. May I present to you… He’s a…

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Daily WordPress Prompt Thing - Long Life

Today's question - would I want to live a very long life? Hmmm...

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life? Mortality is terrifying, right? It’s something I’ve kind of shrugged off in my younger years, perhaps neglecting to take care of myself properly while playing video games and avoiding what we call “real life”. Nothing better than junk food, fizzy drinks and sitting around on my ass all day! But hey. I’m 40 this year (eek) and…

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Book Battle - Team Yankee vs OPLAN Fulda

Check out my comparison of two speculative fiction novels detailing the outbreak of WW3!

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WordPress Daily Prompt Thing - Billboard

I made a billboard (in Photoshop, not real life!)

If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say? I woke up this fine Saturday morning, well rested and cosy in bed against the 1c winter day and I thought to myself I didn’t do a prompt post yesterday, let’s do one today instead! So I picked up my phone, opened up the app to check today’s prompt and… Yeah okay, that is a pretty out there question! Well you can see the result below, in all its…

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WordPress Daily Prompt Thing - Gift

Today's little prompt post is about something I'd like for a gift...

What is the greatest gift someone could give you? Interesting question! The greatest gift someone could give me these days would be some kind of magic extra room in my house that contained a massive library and one of those fancy mahogany desks with velvety tops, you know the ones like Mr Burns had in The Simpsons! Also, could it have a fancy, top-end gaming PC on it too? Which I can also write…

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WorPress Daily Prompt Thing - Colleges

Today the prompt generator asks me about where I went to college... okay?

What colleges have you attended? Okay, weird one today! What can I say to fill a post about where I went to college? It’s not there anymore and got replaced by houses? There was a garage over the road where I bought Reanimated by Linkin Park for £10 one time? Well worth a tenner! Well, it was an art course I did – Graphics and Illustration because I thought I’d enjoyed it in high school. I…

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WordPress Daily Prompt Thing - Playtime

I wrote a little piece about hobbies and relaxation!

Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you? Today’s prompt kind of made me laugh, as it cast my mind back across millennia to the mid-1990s and being released from classes to run around the school field, pretending we were in Arnie movies or playing with Pogs or something… It’s just not a word adults tend to use around here. Okay? This JPEG just gave me powerful nostalgia…

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I Read a Book: Open Wound

I read Open Wound by Shane Blackheart... now you can read about me reading about it!

Well, seeing as how I’m trying to get more content up in 2024, let’s talk about another book I read, shall we? I appreciate that I only have good things to say, therefore making this format being a review questionable, but that’s because I don’t feel like devoting the time to writing about the real kippers out there (probably why you’ll never see my review for Ready Player One) and therefore only…

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WordPress Daily Prompt Thing - What are Your Biggest Challenges?

I actually wrote something, because it's New Year and I want my little blog to come back!

I keep forgetting this blog exists, how rude is that? 2023 was a bit of a sad year for my little corner of the internet, I admit that I let it gather dust for a bit, but hear me out, for my reasons are wholesome! See, I was working on some short stories for an upcoming anthology (that’s right, more published stories, wahoo!) and have also been working on a more long-form WIP that’s been festering…

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My Grandads' Poetry 14: Enough No More Part 2

It's been 3 years, but here's the second part to my grandads' poem, Enough No More!

It’s been a criminally long time since I last posted one of my grandads’ poems, over three years to be precise! This was mainly because typing them up digitally was a pretty time-consuming process, laptop balanced on my lap and the old folder he’d typed the originals up in (by typewriter, fancy!) balanced on the narrow arm of the chair – it was a bit of a nightmare! But then I discovered that I…

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I Read a Book: A Swift Kick to the Thorax

I Read a Book! Check out my thoughts on a Swift Kick to the Thorax, by @marlynnofmany

I’m currently reading Dune (having loved the Denis Villeneuve movie adaptation) and, though finding Frank Herbert’s rich world very engaging and enjoy cursing those bloody Harkonnens, I sometimes find this a bit of a weighty read. The prose is dense, the universe deep and there are a lot of characters to keep track of early on (getting confused between Thufir Hawat and Gurney Hallack was…

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"but .. but how!?" Asked the tricky Fae, it's familiar world turned upside down as it realised the slow, short-lived human had hoodwinked him.

The human simply laughed in response, "easy, you winged pillock, you kept your name badge on! Now. Where's my wish?"

The Fae looked down, crestfallen. There it was, round, red, cheerful...

Hi, I am in training. My name is Aer.

The Fae froze, running his mind back over the subtleties of the conversation, following it’s hidden twists and clever turns, until he realizes. “Wait, did you just… how did you..” The human smiles politely. “Thank you, for your name”

You’ve been a proud farm-owner for 40 years. However, hordes of migrating adventurers visit each year, insisting on completely renovating your farm and muttering about “quests” and “hidden achievements”. Your farm is now bigger than the nearest fortress. Your wife is concerned.

fell asleep wondering how body disposal would work in a world were humans evolved more like turtles or giant clams, and had a thick carapace, huge and tougher than our current skeletal system. imagine how inconvenient it would be for a murderer trying to get rid of a body--how do u dispose of the giant fucking shell? also coffins would be a different shape, more like an ellipsoid? human skeletons usually take less than a century to disintegrate, but imagine if we had a exoskeleton that was prone to fossilization. the study of archeology would be very, very affected. also i assume we wouldn't be able to sleep on our backs anymore? how would beds be shaped. what would a world run by turtle-humans look like. would we cover our shells with fabric/clothing or decorate them like we do fingernails? or just straight up do airbrush art? would graffiti be a social issue? someone spray paints u while you're sleeping and u have to pay to have your shell professionally sandpapered? there are so many sociological implications

these are the thoughts that come to me at night