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Stuart Lennon

Stuart is the writer, interrupted of the title of this website.

Living the Dream May 10, 2019 2 min read Free

Living the Dream - 46. The Trouble with Trees

The trouble with trees is that they keep growing. “Sorry. We can’t stay long, we have to get home to meet our tree surgeon.” Not words that I had ever imagined saying. My parents built the house nearly thirty years ago, and planted several trees then. One or two

Working Tools May 09, 2019 1 min read Free

Working Tool - 21. Me

The biggest tool of all. Me. Hmm… that hasn’t come out quite as I’d hoped. It’s blazingly obvious, but whatever tools I use to help me write, they are insignificant next to the source of the writing. Whether it be of the head, the heart, of experience

Writing May 06, 2019 1 min read Premium

Rewrites

Living the Dream May 04, 2019 1 min read Free

Living the Dream - 45. Coptic Gales

The Khamsheen Winds, the last of the Coptic Gales are here. The air is thick and heavy. Everybody has a sore throat and irritated eyes. Sounds like the opening of a Wilbur Smith novel. But it isn’t. Coptic Gales There are fourteen Coptic or Phoenician gales, between the end

Working Tools May 01, 2019 1 min read Free

Working Tools 20. - Music

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.” Leo Tolstoy. I’m writing [https://stuartlennon.com/draft-wrangling/] scenes set in Budapest in the early 1990s. My protagonist [https://stuartlennon.com/the-protagonist/], Sean is in a bar. Everything is going his way. He’s invincible, unstoppable. The world is his oyster and everything

Writing Apr 29, 2019 1 min read Premium

Just one hour

Living the Dream Apr 26, 2019 2 min read Free

Living the Dream - 44. Contrarian

Contrarian Winetasting. Supper. Up early for golf, back home for a swim, record a podcast, then out for grilled meat. That’s more like it, truly living the dream. Nothing contrarian about that. I wrote last week about expats [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-43-expat/] and the collective consciousness. Often this group-think

Working Tools Apr 24, 2019 2 min read Free

Working Tools 19. - The Pocket Notebook

The Pocket Notebook The original personal data assistant. I use a combination of digital and analogue tools, which is not a policy decision, rather it depends which tool is right for the job. I wrote about my range of notebooks back in January [https://stuartlennon.com/writing-tools-7-notebooks/]. The primary function

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