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I write. I write to find out how my stories end. When I start I only know the beginnings. The concepts. Then I get to discover the endings. It always amazes me.

Auckland, New Zealand

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6 months

My next book, Arrowtown, is due to be released in September 2024. It is a Middle Grade novel, aimed at 11-14 years, set in the historic township of Arrowtown, New Zealand, between 1866 and 2024. it will be available in Kindle, paperback and hardcover from your local bookstore.

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@ginnyhogan_ I CAN’T LOOK AWAY. It’s a televised road accident. Including the emergency services… …probably with an ambulance waiting to treat Biden and a police car waiting to arrest Trump.

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@KirstenUsman Parents. Meh. I am trying to lose weight. I have gone from 82kg to 77kg since Christmas. My mother (80) knows this and I was visiting on the weekend Me: Hi mum! How are you feeling today? Mum: <looking sideways> you’re still fat. I slowly breathed out and thought about chocolate

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@Bigqadi If you feel the need to yell at people, you may want to address your own issues first before assuming that other people enjoy being terrorised and trying to work *that* out. For the record, zero people like being yelled at, but they are not the problem here.

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@DrSpooky_ER I feel the same about my favourite spectacle cleaners. I caught my wife fondling my best cleaning cloth and asked what she was doing. “Wiping my phone screen.” We’re still married, but, you know…can it be the same after something like that?

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@ferrifrigida Most people’s bodies stop being an aesthetic object at around 21. From that point on, you’d better get working on being interesting. Time does not turn back, no matter what plastic surgeons would have you believe. I’m 55 and happy with my wrinkly pile of flesh.

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@kangaroos991 Can’t you just GIVE Texas back to Mexico? I mean, wouldn’t that be easier than a war?

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@thetimes Newsflash: Cancer detection capabilities rising twice as fast annually. The rates haven’t changed, the reporting just got better.

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@DanaGricken I thought that about my dad too. He died six months ago. My books were all in his bookshelf, with notes, comments and questions throughout. He had spent hours going through them leaving encouraging words throughout each book. We never discussed them. Not once.

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@crunchyg9 I went back to university at 46 to finish a degree that had been put on the back-burner at 19 because I needed to work. I graduated last year. It hangs on the wall now as my career is over. Make sure you’re not putting your life on hold waiting for goals to be completed.

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@JaeMargal I have one. My wife. When you have a woman in your life who truly cares about you, you only need one.

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@PatricProAuthor I’m from New Zealand. We don’t have accents.

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@gbergan Planned obsolescence. The thing that brought this planet to its knees. Snapchat defines our future. Nothing last forever now.

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@ThatEricAlper Robert Johnson. Nobody plays him these days. Okay, it a single musician not a band…but he was the band.

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@halalboozee It is not about the girl we want, as a man always gets the girl he deserves. If you don’t make the effort, then your reward will be as lacklustre as your efforts. Love is a cross between a delicate rose and a ferocious tiger. Don’t try and tame the flower…

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@creator_grimm Audrey Hepburn.

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@AuthorJFuller Agreed. Although…if you send your ashes to , they can turn you into the gemstone of your choice. I always wanted to be a jukebox stylus needle and play music forever… I’ll probably end up on the roses though and I can live with that.

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@Sinfulskin2 Gen X with Millennial? There’s a disaster waiting to happen.

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@JoJoFromJerz This is best two guys in America right now? Really? Seriously?

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@TelfordJuliet @KirstenUsman Thanks! My aim is 12kg in 12 months. I’ve lost five and we’re only four months in. 70kg is my target.

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@wiseconnector Is Lola a women’s name?

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@NatashaCL7 I feel safe to like this post!

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@Tjeerd001 Me. The thought has appealed from time to time but the reality is that my OCD would get annoyed at a tattoo in the shower. I’d be there all day trying to wash it clean.

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@unkonfined Because we are watching. I have few active friends and it means I am generally an observer of life. I know things other people only dream about.

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@texasmoke @ginnyhogan_ Mate, the whole place was burning down! It was a total wildfire! Hoses couldn’t have saved that one.

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@AuthorJFuller If you added Ryan Reynolds, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t even need a title. It could just be a blank poster. With their names on it and the picture of a dog.

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@Baddiel My mother was a very successful businesswoman, but is now 80 and we aren’t quite deciding what she has for breakfast, but that moment is close.

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@DaisyNyna Sure they can. And they can develop feelings for one another. It doesn’t mean they have to act on them. This is part of growing up.

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@NutshellWriter I feel superior to their editors.

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@Sophia_Nyx Changes. No contest. Ooh. Or Space Oddity. Or Ashes to Ashes. Or Fame. Or Starman. Or Heroes. Or Golden Years. Or Thursday’s Child. Or….i can keep this up for ages yet.

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@_B___S I picked this one. (The one on the right is Brontë). She still locks eye contact, eleven years later. This one sees straight into your soul.

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@gggirl924 Muhammad Ali

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@BexBookaholic But…but how would you know anything if we didn’t explain it? In short words? Well-enunciated? With hand signals and diagrams? And subtitles? With one of those little windows showing the sign language translation? And a PowerPoint slideshow? (My wife is trying to physically drag

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@ZoeWundenberg You go on. The sun will still rise each morning and set every evening. And his expectations of what you can achieve with your life won’t change, even if he is no longer here to see it. Honour him by achieving those goals.

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@katieemorann I had a vasectomy when I was 33, without children. I got my dream job when I was 34. I was diagnosed with MS when I was 37 and retired. After eleven years together, I married my wife at 38. A decade is a very, very long time, but you only get to live each one once. Live it well.

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@JBVelasquez75 I don’t even think I know what normal is. Based on this, I am as screwed up as everyone else. Does this make me ‘normal”?

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@cogitoergospud @amandaforealz @ferrifrigida Take a look around society. Go have a look at what advertisers are pushing. I wasn’t stating a personal preference. My sixty-year-old wife is my main squeeze. This isn’t your average marketing exec’s main squeeze. Words can always be twisted. It’s not even difficult to do so.

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@diannasaurusr3x Being human. Let them know — they will take it as a compliment.

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@wiseconnector Secret to life: Happiness grows as you get older. You are more free to be yourself, enjoy the universe and are more mentally relaxed. This is the secret to growing older. Keep the secret — we don’t want the younger generation finding out how much fun we are having.

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@JuliaIndigo @KirstenUsman Well, yes, although she has a terminal medical condition so it’s not as funny as it used to be. Still, it gets the point across.

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@jverona77 The smell of rain hitting the street on a hot summers day. Nothing else exists with that smell at that time. It smells like…my youth.

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@BrokenMoonreal Trump.

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@DzintraSullivan The Internet.

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@PostingOften Genuine question. Why does the rainbow flag exclude violet? Is that the one missing? The rainbow has seven colours normally: ROYGBIV. It triggers my OCD every time. It’s still a nice flag…but it’s not a rainbow.

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@MAstronomers 4.5 billion years until the collision with the Milky Way. That’ll be fun! About the same time our sun is due to turn into a red giant. Could be a good time to be a loooonggg way away!

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@SaffiWrites An inspirational poster, the sort with a beautiful mountain/river scene, but with a really hot fitness model posed in front covered in caramel and milk chocolate. Below this image is a quote: “Be who you are meant to be. Be who you really are today. Be Twix.”

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@jfclarkauthor As long as the choice isn’t taking the last mint chocolate off the second layer, then sure.

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@AmandaGW Teach them how to look in a mirror and like what they see.

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@NatashaCL7 I named my dog Brontë, after Emily and Charlotte. Feel free to steal it lol. It’s kinda unisex.

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@Dannah_Banana My wife says I only have two faults: 1) I don’t listen, and 2) Something else…

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@csmfiction I don’t care; I write the stories i want to see end. I don’t write for others or money or fame. All the story idea has to do is pose an unknown ending. Then I go searching for it.

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@JagsArthurson I’m a writer when I’m spitting out drafts. I’m an author when I am polishing the final versions. I’m a novelist when I collect my books from the printery. I’m a hack when I’m reading my bad reviews. I’m a genius when I read my good reviews. I’m an imposter when I try use these.

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@imPenny2x Magic is the first eye contact you make with your true soulmate. Magic is blue skies and sunshine on a clear, winters day. It is the love your pets give you daily. Magic is everywhere. I can summon it with my fingers as I type. I can dispel my enemies with a smile. That’s magic,

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@SarahMillican75 Happy birthday! 49 looks quite good. This is what 55 looks like. I hope your beard doesn’t grow this long in the next six years.

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@hashjenni We play hide‘n’seek like a boss.

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@sophpen From the age of six onwards to about nine, I would be the first home from school. A key was pointless as I couldn’t reach the lock. I worked out I could squeeze through the cat-door. From nine onwards I’d just aimlessly wander the streets.

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@finn_crj @KirstenUsman If they stop harping, it’s time to call the undertaker.

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@CarynnBohley “Meeeeeeeee!” he screams, as he runs around the room waving his arms in the air like one of those blow-up advertising guys. He stops right in front of you and leans in close towards your face. “Me,” he whispers in your ear. “I write,” he says, stepping back. “Meeeeeeeeee!”

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@NatashaCL7 I only flirt with my wife. You know, after 28 years, it’s still as much fun as ever.

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This Mortal Star was the first novel I published. I love the story and will return to rewrite it one day. It was a great first novel. #thismortalstar

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@LindenmuthWendi Yes. It starts with tiny little goosebumps on the back of my neck followed by the hairs on my arms standing straight up, then my wife breathes in and screams: “Did you take the rubbish bins out?” And I lean back and pick up the whiskey glass and think about dragons and gold dust.

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@shulgasser @BobGolen Elon just wants more customers.

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@BobGolen The only downside is if you are over fifty and wondering who will be manning the rest-homes in twenty years…

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@ronsterd89 I used to use it all the time. Now I’m the chief cook and she is the bottle washer. So, i guess it describes our marriage.

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@zoiya_morell Either is fine. Closer is better. The real question is: Do you put a full stop after the ellipse? The mystical fourth dot of punctuation hell.

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@unkonfined Sitting in a hospital bed, blind, being told I have Multiple Sclerosis. That year will always mean that to me, no matter how many other memories also exist from 2005. And there were a lot of others.

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@BexBookaholic I listen to my wife listening to audiobooks. Does that count?

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@FScottFitzJesse I went back at 42. I was diagnosed with a chronic illness that wasn’t going to kill me but stopped me being ability to hold down a job. So, i activated the income protection policy and headed back to university. Graduated with a double major in psychology and sociology last year.

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@wiseconnector Perfect. (New Zealand)

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@emmaloffhagen Worcestershire. <drops mic>

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@SedonaCAuthor It’s fun. My wife now lets me go down the confectionery aisle unattended, without advice. This is how deep our relationship has developed in 28 years.

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@aas_ker Nothing. Marriage is awesome. Look, marriage is like skateboarding. If you go into it expecting perfection on day one, you’ll be disappointed. After twenty years, when you are doing 720s with a double backflip, you realise how good you have become. Work on it…every day.

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@thetimes It has been my experience that weight loss is fastest when combined with lots of exercise. This grows muscle, so the weight can fluctuate a bit….but, i still recommend daily weigh-ins. Being focussed on the goal first thing helps set the day on the right track.

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@DrJenGunter I’m a dude and even I know that…

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@AuthorTOBurnett This was true in 1986 as well.

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@NatashaCL7 She is 81. It is no longer my choice.

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@hardasamother Don’t get me started with the small talk thing. The opening line I dislike the most is “How are you?” Nobody wants that answered…they want to get a “Fine thanks” back…and it hurts to answer it that way.

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@Joan_1951 @KirstenUsman She has changed the world sufficiently that she will be remembered for her achievements, not her inadequacies.

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@brockpierson New Zealand. The tiny country that managed to pip Canada by one gold on the medal table. I will be tweeting this to every Canadian I cross paths with today.

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@wiseconnector Coffee. You don’t realise it until you try and give it up. It takes weeks of cold turkey hell to get past it. Headaches, cold sweats, fatigue. It’s awful to watch.

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@NatashaCL7 A mixture of superglue and lube.

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@amandaforealz @ferrifrigida Why would you twist what i said this way? This wasn’t what i said.

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@apki_chanda To express his true emotions without being judged or mocked. I’m not expecting a lot of support on this one…but it’s generally fact.

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@HWickersWriter What if you write a poem about eating cake for breakfast?

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@TheNostalgicCo Does anybody remember when Ask Jeeves was going to take over the world because there could never be a better search engine? Ahhh…1996 you naive fool.

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@Camel_Crushin Well done! My wife is in the same boat — six years though. We talk about her “swinging one foot off the wagon”. And that’s fine. The goal and the achievement is still there.

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@realeverywriter I’m thirty years dead. I am worm food. The world moves on. Change is life. Are you happier if the readers of that time find your work offensive?

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@joan_of_snark2 @KirstenUsman I was there to take her to lunch. At lunch she wanted to go halves in a cream-filled bun…and she talked me into eating the other half.

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@tisaiahcho Have you thought about the free money that churches rely on to function?

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@Seanjkernan @StephenKing It’s like Stephen is a prolific writer who has opinions…who knew!

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@Sinfulskin2 Absolutely. Declawing a cat is evil.

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@PostingOften Outside of any religious mumbo-jumbo, if we learnt anything from the life that Jesus lived, surely it’s that he would want you to take the money and help others? I’m not sure anybody would want to have dinner with the sort of person who would turn down $1 trillion worth of aid.

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@Lingzi_W I retired at 37 (due to Multiple Sclerosis). I now write full-time but view it as a hobby. My listed occupation in the Census is “Retired” and has been since I was 37.

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@hgeiser_author I’m taking the path of self-publishing so when I become an international success I can turn down all the approaches from agents, publishers and marketers. It’ll be fun.

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@LindenmuthWendi I feel that. There are no words to make the day easier. Our dog starts her surgery in an hour. I’m not hopeful of the outcome. I will not let her live on in pain.

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@NatashaCL7 Life is supposed to be unfair sometimes. The good days are only good when compared to the bad days. We need both to know which are which.

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@brantleywrites “I sleep pretty heavily. Maybe I die heavily too.”

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@RichardERock1 Home is where I work and play. It is my stress-free retreat from the world.

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@JustDeuxIt @KirstenUsman I had a character in mind, but have decided to base an entire race of aliens on her instead.

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