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Imaginary Friends

February 21, 2021 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

When children do it, it is said to be normal; their imaginary friends are thought of as the captivating make-believe workings of a lively mind. When grown-ups do it, and are either silly or plucky enough to tell anyone, they are in danger of being looked at askew (at best) or being told to immediately … Continue reading Imaginary Friends

How To Turn an Adult Into a Child

October 18, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Care nothing about getting food all over your clothes, what are washing machines for? Sit on the grass anyway, a damp and dirty bum isn’t so bad when you are up and moving. Mud on your knees, so what? Take a big drink of water and swish it all around the inside of your mouth … Continue reading How To Turn an Adult Into a Child

Doing What Doesn’t Come Naturally

October 10, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

I do not mean this in a cruel way, but there is nothing funnier that someone who does something badly. I’m not talking about executing something in a half-baked, not-very-good-but-might-be-if-they-practiced way, I mean full on shocking, how can you possibly be so bad at that? And it is really only funny if they know; when they are … Continue reading Doing What Doesn’t Come Naturally

Knowing Nothing

October 4, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Here’s what I’ve been thinking about lately: not knowing; having a blank slate; feeling uninformed and therefore not able to put forward a considered opinion; having hardly any of the answers; not being sure what I am writing about. It’s not fashionable these days to say you don’t know, or that you haven’t made up … Continue reading Knowing Nothing

The Thing You Turn To

September 20, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

It changes through life, the thing you turn to when the going gets tough; the thing you do to unwind and to clear your head. Some people go off and pound the streets, shove in their ear-pods (or not) and let the pavement absorb their problems with a brisk walk or a long run. And … Continue reading The Thing You Turn To

Happiness Writes White

August 17, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 1 Comment

I had never heard the phrase before and then (how does this happen?) I came across it again within twenty-four hours. ‘Happiness writes white,’ he said. ‘When I am content, I have no inspiration. Ease causes the muse to fly.’ I didn’t want to believe it, that one needs to be tortured in order to … Continue reading Happiness Writes White

Dear Reader

June 21, 2020July 23, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 7 Comments

‘Who is your ideal reader?’  It was the question posed by one of The Saturdays – the given name of the five of us who zoom-write at the weekend.  Hard to say, was my answer, easier to say who my ideal writer is.  After all, I’ve thought about that, I’ve even acted upon it: told … Continue reading Dear Reader

You Never Learn To Do It

April 8, 2020April 14, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ Leave a comment

Having been alerted to my own haphazard use of the full stop I now see it abused everywhere.  There is one particular book I am reading.  In this book it is placed most unconventionally.  Places where you wouldn’t expect.  Everywhere.  Are full stops.  Littered with profligacy.  Strewn.  Thoughtlessly.  Needless to say, it’s driving me mad, … Continue reading You Never Learn To Do It

Good Enough to Steal

February 25, 2020February 25, 2020 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 2 Comments

Is there anything new under the sun?  Is anything we write or paint or compose truly original, or is every creative act influenced (hopefully for the good) by what has gone before, so that what we produced has been re-learned, repeated, tweaked?  Apparently whenever W.H. Auden read something in a book that he liked or … Continue reading Good Enough to Steal

Murder Your Darlings

November 27, 2019 ~ myedinburghpress ~ 4 Comments

Sometimes quoted as, ‘murder your darlings’ other times as, ‘kill your darlings’ -- whatever your preference, the advice amounts to the same thing: don’t scrimp when it comes to editing.  Take to your writing with a red pen and the eye of Marie Kondo going through kitchen cupboards that haven’t been reviewed in a decade, … Continue reading Murder Your Darlings

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I hope my online Edinburgh Press will, in time, hold a similar collection in words to that which is in my Edinburgh Press at home.  I will add to it as often as I can building a collection of memories and observations bubbling up from below, breaking the surface of my mind. I’ll send them out into the world where you can, if you want, share them. Welcome to My Edinburgh Press.

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  • How To Turn an Adult Into a Child October 18, 2020
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