Category: James Proclaims
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Day 21 NaNoWriMo, and thus we’re 70% of the way there. My word count continues to flounder and not for the first time I find…
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I may or may not be slightly inebriated as I wite this. I have been drinking beer, so it would be reasonable to question my…
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It’s Friday, which is never a bad thing. I have the weekend ahead of me and I’m very much looking forward to not being at…
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One of the more recent November phenomenons is the UK’s adoption of Black Friday. It’s quite a strange concept that a country that does not…
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This is the second time I’ve attempted NaNoWriMo. The last time was in 2014. I didn’t do very well that time. I’m not sure when…
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When I started doing this challenge I knew it would be pretty tough to maintain the novel-writing bit of it. What I hadn’t anticipated was…
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Day 15 of NaNoWriMo and this is officially the halfway point. At least it is in terms of days. I’m not even close to the…
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I’m officially 2 weeks in to my NaNoWriMo/NaBloPoMo adventure. It’s not exactly the halfway point, but it feels like a milestone of sorts. I’m now…
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Despite keeping up the pretence, even to myself, that I will make up the defecit caused by my feeble efforts on work days, by fully…
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It’s Friday evening and therefore the weekend. I don’t have any half-marathons to run this weekend, though I think it’s fair to say that I’m…
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Irrespective of how good my novel is (and it really isn’t), I can’t help but feel that these accompanying posts are a little prosaic in…
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Day 10 of this NaNoWriMo/NaBloPoMo journey means I’m a third of the way there chronologically. In terms of NaBloPoMo, I’m ticking all the boxes, but…
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Day 9 of my thirty day novel-writing challenge and progress is slow. I’m falling asleep as I write this, which is less than ideal, and…
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It turns out running a half-marathon is tiring. I already knew this, because I did run a few in the noughties, and indeed one in…
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In a change to the usual format (of this relatively new thing I’ve been doing), I’m posting today’s NaBloPoMo effort before I’ve even had a…
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As I stumble to the end of day 6 of this folly, I am sad to report that I have not had the productive Saturday…
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It’s the 5th of November and here in the UK it’s the day of the annual pyrotechnical festival known as Guy Fawkes Night. Or Bonfire…
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November is but four days old and I continue to persist with my attempts to write an entire novel this month in honour of NaNoWriMo.…
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On to day 3 and it has to be said, things are not going as well as could be hoped. I started the week with…
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It is day 2 of November 2021 and consequently day 2 of my pledge to produce a badly written novel of circa 50,000 words by…
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And so to day 1 of the month that is often referred to as November and my, almost certainly futile, endeavour to successfully navigate the…
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Happy Halloween everybody! If indeed that is the correct greeting. Although maybe a ‘happy’ Halloween is not a successful Halloween. I wouldn’t know. I’m not…
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When last I troubled the blogoshpere, it was at the end of a horrible weekend which saw Little Proclaims briefly hospitalised and the entire Proclaims…
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As I write this it is Sunday evening and I’m watching highlights of last week’s Reading Festival on the television. Specifically I am watching Liam…
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As I write this, it is Friday morning. I am at home, as has been the case for the last five weeks, because school is…
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It’s Saturday morning as I write this and Chez Proclaims we are embarking on what is arguably the toughest challenge we have ever faced as…
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As I write this I am a little inebriated. I’m currently sitting in my garden on a Saturday afternoon drinking a bottle of pink sparkling…
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It has, at the time of writing, been but two days since Tokyo 2020 ended but I’m already feeling somewhat bereft. This is often the…
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As I write this, Team GB has just won a bronze medal in the noble sport of dressage. I don’t know much about dressage, it…
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It’s time to crack open the bubbly. No, not champagne. I can’t really justify the cost of champagne for an occasion such as this. To…
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As I write this I am sitting in my garden enjoying what can only be described as a glorious Saturday morning. The sun is shining,…
James Proclaims! 