Writing Prompts: Swear Words

Time for a topic that dives into some very not-suitable-for-word territory. If you are sensitive to bad language, I advise you to skip this post. I will be discussing rude words. If swear words don’t faze you, or if your curiosity has gotten the better of you, read on! So, what are swear words? In […]

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Writing Prompts: The British Rail Revolution

In the 1950s and 60s, it was becoming rapidly clear that Britain’s railways were in need of improvement. The public’s faith in British Rail (the body that oversaw the railways from 1963 to 2001) was waning, in the wake of dire performance. Unpopular decisions (such as all the cuts made by the Beeching Axe) meant […]

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Writing Prompts: Lamestream

Today’s prompt is brought to you by the Oxford English Dictionary, and the word lamestream. Lamestream means ‘having mainstream appeal or popularity in a way that is characterized as blandly conventional, uninteresting, or uncool.’ The concept is derogatory, and arrogant, because these things are subjective. Do I personally care for much of modern pop music? […]

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Using Science to Prove God?

It goes without saying that understanding how the universe came into being is a fundamental question, one that drives a lot of scientific endeavour, as well as a lot of theological and philosophical questions. Sometimes (well, a lot of the time) the scientific study clashes with the theological study. A lot of religious believers operate […]

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Writing Prompts: Amsterdam

For this prompt, I opened up Google Maps, typed in the letter A, and let auto-fill do its thing. Thus, here we are, with Amsterdam up for discussion. In many ways, Google has proven handy, because I’ve been to Amsterdam (albeit it was two decades ago now). It’s a vibrant city, a colourful and modern […]

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Writing Prompts: Grandiloquent

Today’s prompt is brought to you by Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day… albeit their word of the day on the 7th of September, as opposed to today. That word is ‘grandiloquent’, and it means ‘speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous’. As with a lot of words in […]

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Writing Prompts: Grudges

Are you holding a grudge? About? This is interesting. Am I presently holding a grudge? I guess that depends. There are people who annoy me, albeit those people are also people I am putting behind me. There is no sense wasting that most precious of commodities – time – on the ignorant. I have (rather […]

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Writing Prompts: Lakes

Following on from my post on rivers, I figured that I should definitely do a post about lakes. Lakes are unique in that they can be quite small, or absolutely huge. At their biggest, they rival entire countries for sheer size. For example, the Great Lakes that straddle the US/Canadian border would occupy a territory […]

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Writing Prompts: Ideal Home

What does your ideal home look like? Hmm. Hmmmmmmm. My ideal home eh? Well, firstly, location location location! According to Forbes, the best city to live in is the Austrian city of Vienna, which has scooped this particular prize for two years in succession. Vienna scores highly for stability, infrastructure and culture, so parking my […]

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