Category Archives: Writing

On The Letterhead

Posted on 6th November 2025 by NomadWarMachine

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How I found the Daily Create

Posted on 3rd November 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Creative Bomb flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license I found out about the Daily Create because I became part of an online community. As I’ve written before, in 2014 I signed up for an … Continue reading →

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Busy Bees

Posted on 13th September 2025 by NomadWarMachine

248/365 Busy bees flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license I love making postcards.  Doodling ideas on paper, then drawing them on blank cards, looking through my spreadsheet of names and addresses, writing a … Continue reading →

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Blogging as an academic practice

Posted on 11th July 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Percolating ideas flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license I’ve been enjoying dipping in and out of the “On Writing” series that Jim Groom’s been hosting on Reclaim TV, although I’ve not been able … Continue reading →

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Academic Book Chapters

Posted on 9th July 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Every time I have an academic book chapter published I promise myself that I will never do it again, because it takes so long from first submitting an expression of interest to finally seeing it published. But then I forget, … Continue reading →

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The seven stages of writing

Posted on 27th May 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, “Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart, and write.” Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. I used to agonise over how I wrote, because it seemed to be so … Continue reading →

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My blogging journey

Posted on 16th April 2025 by NomadWarMachine

I started my blog on 17th July 2012, originally as a WordPress.com hosted site. I blogged sporadically about conferences I’d attended, bits of philosophy that interested me (at the time I was a tutor in Philosophy as well as a … Continue reading →

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Blogging Questions Challenge

Posted on 20th February 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Nobody’s asked me, but that’s never stopped me from having an opinion, so here goes. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I feel that I should say something deep or profound, but actually I can’t remember. I … Continue reading →

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Easy Writing

Posted on 1st February 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Nearly there flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license People often tell me that they wished they found it as easy to write as I do – because, they think, it’s obvious that writing comes naturally … Continue reading →

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The KISS approach to blogging

Posted on 24th January 2025 by NomadWarMachine

Tiny clanger flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Reading Jim’s recent blog post earlier got me thinking. I half typed a comment, but then Teams started lighting up with notifications and before I knew it … Continue reading →

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