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John Nixon was born and brought up in England, but has lived more than half his life elsewhere in various places, but mostly in Sweden. He calls Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast his adopted home town. He used to teach English and history to high school students and various sorts of English for specific purposes to adult students. Nowadays he lives by writing and translating technical and educational texts and websites. In his spare time he blogs at TheSupercargo, and writes poetry, flash fiction, longer stories, pieces of novels and podcast scripts. Website: https://thesupercargo.com
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Old books and memories

Old books can be more than the sum of their parts. Our author becomes nostalgic when he helps clear his mother's library.
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Posted by By John Nixon 2022-11-21Posted inBi-weekly WisdomTags: books, nostalgia2 Comments
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One word cues

Three words, six images, use one or any combination to create the first line of your next story!
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Posted by By John Nixon 2022-08-29Posted inPensivesTags: photo prompts, writing prompts2 Comments
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Inarticulate characters – know what I mean?

It's not easy to write inarticulate characters and make them sympathetic. But Prince Charles managed it once (inadvertantly). How about you?
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Posted by By John Nixon 2022-06-06Posted inBi-weekly WisdomTags: prince charles, shakespeare, writing characters4 Comments
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The Memory Game: writing prompts

A series of writing prompts for fictional and factual writing built out of personal memories.
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Posted by By John Nixon 2022-01-10Posted inPensivesTags: character development, memory, writing prompts5 Comments
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Pens Around the World: 2021 and onward

Pens Around the World - looking back at our first year of existence in 2021, and forward to 2022 and beyond.
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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-12-20Posted inBi-weekly WisdomTags: 2021, 2022, Pens Around the World, plans, website, writing4 Comments
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Can you Survive the Haunted Horror of the Witches’ Vampire House?

Six prompts to get you writing in the week after Halloween!
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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-11-01Posted inPensivesTags: halloween, horror, writing prompts4 Comments
Of Muses and Daemons
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Of Muses and Daemons

In last week's Pensive Debbie Hubbard asked: "Do you have a muse?" My answer is, Yes, I do. Kind of. Once upon a long ago, when I was still a…
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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-08-30Posted inBi-weekly WisdomTags: Clio, inspiration, muses6 Comments
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Pensive questions for character creation

A selection of writing prompts based on questions.
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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-06-28Posted inPensivesTags: questions, writing prompts3 Comments
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A muse full of windows

Windows: Writing prompts for this week's muse.
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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-04-19Posted inPensivesTags: writing prompts5 Comments
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Introducing Pens around the World

Introducing Pens Around the World, a new community of writers working in English and far-flung placesassociating over the Inte
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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-04-12Posted inBi-weekly WisdomTags: about us, writing far-flung2 Comments

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