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Dear People of Earth…

Dear People of Earth, I wanted to pen a quick letter in order to introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me, and to inform you all of a few of the changes I shall be making now that I have assumed total and absolute control of the planet formerly known as “Earth”, [...]

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This will blow your mind.

Something has been bothering me for the past few months, ever since I saw what I can only describe as “a very surprising thing” on children’s television. It was something that made me question everything I have ever believed. It was something that forced me to realise that not only do I not have all [...]

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4,057 words. 5 hours. Yay me.

Well the ending I had come up with for Invisible Fiends book 2 was a bit rushed and rubbish, so I sat down today and wrote the ending the story deserved. As the title of this post announces, I managed to write over 4000 words in 5 hours, and have now properly finished the first [...]

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The 100th Post Spectacular!

Let the trumpets play, let the dancers dance, and let all of us be merry – ’tis the 100th post here on BarryHutchison.com! Although I stated my intention a while back to become a kind of mutant book/butterfly hybrid when I reached my 100th post (see here for details), I’ve decided not to bother.  This [...]

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Soup vs Drugs

I’m writing a short story for possible inclusion in a new anthology at the moment.  It’s a gritty, realistic piece, about two boys in inner city Glasgow, and touches on various ‘grown-up’ subjects.  One of these is drugs. Now, never having been involved in drugs myself, I’m having to do a lot of reading up.  [...]

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Five things I have recently realised

1.  I make faces which correspond with what I’m writing.  For example, if I write about someone scowling, I scowl. If someone smiles in a story I’m working on, I smile as I type the phrase “she smiled”.  I only caught myself doing it the other day, but have since realised that I do it [...]

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An Open Letter to Wasps

I have just been chased around my kitchen by an incredibly persistent wasp. Fortunately, I survived, which is reason enough for me to post this letter I wrote to the wasp species as a whole a few years back. An Open Letter to Wasps Dear Wasps, Well…where to begin? This letter has been a long [...]

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The 50th Post

I really just logged on here today to delete all the usual spam comments about Britney Spears’ … um … lady’s area, but then I noticed that my post last night was the forty-ninth one to appear on the site. For the mathematically challenged, that would make this post number fifty. A milestone in anyone’s [...]

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A Letter to Skeletor

Long, long ago I wrote the letter below for another website I ran.  The site was called RandomRant, and recently I was forced to take it down due to hacker/not having enough time issues. Anyway, I’ve saved all the content.  Much of it isn’t … erm … suitable to go on here.  Other stuff is.  [...]

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