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Gail Aldwin talks about This Much Huxley Knows
Gail Aldwin, a founder member of Pens Around The World, talks about her 2021 novel This Much Huxley Knows, and about being a member of PATW.
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THE AEROPLANE
In 1903, the Wright brothers flew around 200 feet at Kittyhawk. In 1909, Blériot crossed the English Channel. By 1918, aircraft played a significant role in combat and the RAF…
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Ten Remarkable Facts about Nijmegen
It’s my new home town but asides from that there is much to discover about this city which overlooks the River Waal on the Dutch/German border. It’s the oldest city…
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A Pensive on Writing Place
Use the opening passages from these novels to inspire a piece of your own writing. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez starts in a village: Macondo was…
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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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MUSES & HEAT & MEET n GREET
Do you have a muse? Write about her. I say “her”, because the original Greek muses were female. But yours may not be. Write about what form he/she/it takes and…
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What Is It With Humans and Story?
What are the earliest stories you remember from your childhood? Mine involve journeys into worlds different from mine: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Secret…
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Pensive 9 August 2021
You are a dog whisper. You’ve been that way since childhood. It’s not that you know what they are thinking; you can hear them in your mind, always with individual…
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Common Mistakes
What to write about? How can I think in this blistering heat? The temperature here is over 40C in the shade on our terrace! So.....perusing my bookshelf for inspiration, I…
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Poems please
Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a poem pensive? A few ideas for you here: Write an acrostic poem of 9 lines using the word girandole. Each line begins with…