Metaphors

Musings about character, plot and so on.

Ideas from various other people on the subject of getting on with things, getting unstuck etc, and a few comments & comparisons from me.

No facts here that haven’t already been reported elsewhere, just my own reflections.

Memories, metaphor and song, on the death of a friend

A book recommendation and some related thoughts…

Some what-ifs about our world, prompted by a quote from Alice Walker.

Following on from the metaphor of “gearing up”, here are some “example gears”, and some more things I thought about it as I experimented.

Sometimes it’s not a bad idea to “do the easy things first” – because sometimes once you’re “on a roll”, the hard things don’t seem so hard.

2-minute animation of a metaphor for life, featuring the words of Alan Watts.

Some thoughts on saving, retrieving, handing on or losing information. Ratchets, branches, channels, dead ends etc.

On having lots of ideas all trying to get out at once (short)

What will be in this blog (as far as I know so far)? And what’s my purpose in doing it? First post.