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The Countdown to 250: 2…

12 April 2010

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Not got much time to post tonight. Had a hectic day of stressing, worrying, panicking and eating ice cream (the last one wasn’t so bad), so going to try to get a couple of hundred words of Invisible Fiends book 4 done before heading down to watch Flash Forward. So, very quickly, here’s your post [...]

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The Countdown to 250: 3…

10 April 2010

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I’ve just realised I’ve made a grave mathematical error when counting the number of posts remaining until the 250th. I thought that, after today, there would be 2 more posts and then it would be the 250th. But I was wrong. After 2 more posts we will only be on the 249th. Aaargh! Still, never [...]

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The Countdown to 250: 4…

9 April 2010

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Continuing our countdown to the 250th blog post here on BarryHutchison.com, I’ve dug this little gem up from the archives. An Open Letter to Wasps. And as for today’s Thing That Used to Scare the Crap out of Me…? This is a still from a movie produced in 1978 – the year I was born [...]

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The Countdown to 250: 5…

8 April 2010

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Technically it should be “The Count up to 250″ but that just looked stupid as a post title, and I look stupid enough in my day to day life without doing it here, too. By my reckoning (or, more accurately, by my website stats) this is the 244th post on BarryHutchison.com. Since I did nothing [...]

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Dear Fat Bloke Down the Road…

5 April 2010

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Dear Fat Bloke Down the Road, I’m the first to admit that it would be easier to come and speak to you in person than to draft this letter, but there is a very good reason why I have elected to contact you in writing. Put simply, you terrify me. Actually, perhaps ‘terrify’ is the [...]

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Collected writing tips

13 March 2010

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Since starting this blog back in February 2008 I’ve tried to at least occasionally write something that readers might find vaguely useful. I haven’t often succeeded, but I’ve tried, at least. Surely that counts for something? Anyway, now that I’m doing more and more author events, I find myself being asked to share writing advice [...]

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Kentucky Fried Fairies

4 December 2009

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During my school workshops I mention an early attempt I made at writing a children’s book – a comedy fantasy novel called KENTUCKY FRIED FAIRY. I’ve mentioned it on the blog a few times, and if you do a search for the title you’ll even find a few sample chapters to download and read. Today, [...]

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Some overdue apologies

3 December 2009

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I am going to devote this blog entry to an apology. Or rather, to a series of apologies, many of which are long overdue. I hope you will bear with me as I cleanse my soul of sin. I’d like to start by apologising to Miss Adam my primary four teacher, for disappointing and angering [...]

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Frivolous science? Perhaps not…

18 August 2009

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It’s not unusual to open a newspaper, or catch the end of an evening news bulletin, only to be presented with the latest ‘findings’ of some team of government funded scientists somewhere – findings which, to the average person, seem like an utter and unforgivable waste of time and resources. Equally as often, you’ll hear [...]

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The new arms race

25 June 2009

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I’d like to talk about something serious for a moment.  It’s an issue which affects us all, particularly now that the sun is shining and Summer is officially here. I’d like, if I may, to talk about water pistols. Once upon a time, I used to love a water fight.  Running around with a bunch [...]

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