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David Mclaughlan
Nov 222 min read
JANUARY DAYS
Like most of us, I am sure, I love the little extras we find in old books; the connections with the readers who were there before. I have...
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David Mclaughlan
Oct 232 min read
A NEW WRITING GROUP
Every term, I turn up wondering who else will be there. Will enough people be interested in what I do to make the group viable. Hiring a...
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David Mclaughlan
Oct 222 min read
LOCH KATRINE
We were given a boat-ride for Christmas by some very thoughtful family members. It took a while for Julie and I to get around to it, but...
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David Mclaughlan
Oct 91 min read
WORDS AND PICTURES BY...
It was very cool indeed to end the current session of the writing group, in Studio One at the Harbour Arts Centre, sitting beneath the...
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David Mclaughlan
Oct 52 min read
DINOSAURS - NOT FIGHTING
Three men sit around the table in a busy pub-diner. One reaches into a bag and pulls out... a velociraptor, a stegosaurus, and the...
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David Mclaughlan
Oct 11 min read
PEOPLE'S FRIEND No. 8048
When You are in The People's Friend twice in the same week. Okay, one's an advert for The Friendship Book, but I'll take it!
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David Mclaughlan
Sep 251 min read
ART(IST) ON A BUS
This is Andrew Menzies. He drives a bus / art gallery. Since 1978 Edinburgh's Museums and Galleries department have sent their Travelling...
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David Mclaughlan
Sep 201 min read
THE PUBLIC FACE
That's the publicity for the writing group done for the week. All in the Harbour Arts Centre, of course! Our wee booklet, A Wee Free...
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David Mclaughlan
Sep 191 min read
BOOKSHOP DAY
I was in the Book Nook in Stewarton today. I'd gone there from the library because my soul was in need of more soothing! Book shops are...
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David Mclaughlan
Sep 191 min read
THE POEM IN THE BLUE FRAME
For a few years now - thanks to Alison Patterson - the Wordworkers writing group has displayed poems in the Harbour Arts Centre...
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David Mclaughlan
Sep 131 min read
THE PEOPLE AND THE PLACE
I mostly write about people. So, a day out of the house, going somewhere people are can often be seen as research. But, sometimes the...
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David Mclaughlan
Sep 122 min read
SEEK YE!
A friend send me this pic of a story and asked if I'd written it. It's in our writing group's Wee Free Read, and it's a story about being...
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David Mclaughlan
Sep 92 min read
TEA & SYMPATHY OR COFFEE & CREATIVITY
If I'm in a tea-shop or a cafe, I'm usually with someone - which means we will be talking. But a solo visit to places like this can be a...
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David Mclaughlan
Aug 232 min read
STARTING BACK - WORDWORKERS AT THE HAC
Each new term of the writing group brings it's own worries (and delights). This term (Wednesday 21st August) was one I considered...
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David Mclaughlan
Aug 161 min read
THE BLUE WOMB
They warn you to be careful what you say around writers. My unsuspecting friend - who I had a wide-ranging chat with yesterday - bears no...
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David Mclaughlan
Jun 151 min read
In The Ministers Seat
It was a seat for ministers, communing, we hope, with God before the next sermon. I saved it from the renovation skip by donating to a...
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David Mclaughlan
Jun 121 min read
FLASH! AAH-AAHHHHH!
The Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction 2024 is now open. They welcome stories from any genre - provided they can be told in no more than...
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David Mclaughlan
Jun 61 min read
THE MEMORY WELL
The moments we create in little lives!
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David Mclaughlan
May 241 min read
POETS (THE DANGER OF)
I wrote this about being a writer. Then I read it back. I think it works for so many aspects of today's society.
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