John Taylor
57 years old
October 08, 1954
Male
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A new word seems to be around on the the radio. 'Owandbithuway.'Information
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Are you a ...?Unpublished writer (so far)What genre do you primarily write in?General fictionIf you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?Literary fictionAre your reading habits ...?OmnivorousWho is your favourite author(s)?The author I'm readingAnd your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)The Observer's book of Trees; Hotel World/Ali Smith; Coraline/Neil Gaiman; Cannery Row/John Steinbeck; Persuasion/Jane Austen; A Secret Alchemy/Emma Darwin; The Old Man and the Sea/Ernest HemingwayWhat are your working habits when you write?Perfectly balancedAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Prefer to let rip and edit afterwardsYour ultimate writing ambition?To do justice to the characters who keep pestering me. And to move my reader in some way.Your worst habit?Trying to write everythingYour opinion on the books industry?Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get throughWhere do you write?Everywhere, but in one room every dayWhat else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?I'm a storyteller, husband and father of two students. I did care work for thirty years, and now attempt to make a living out of words, spoken and written. Many of my closest friends live with a label round their necks that says 'learning disability'.
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"John Taylor" commented on Bryan's Blog "If You Were an Asterix Character".Or... Soppyromantix
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"John Taylor" commented on Bryan's Blog "If You Were an Asterix Character".
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"John Taylor" commented on SecretSpi's Blog "Reviewed by the SAS".
Yep - it's a great review, Spi!
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"John Taylor" commented on Barry Walsh's Blog "Long Ride".
Phew! I'm exhausted just reading this. And saddle sore from sitting in front of the computer. Barry, you are a star, and I'm sure everyone at St Andrews thinks so too. Keep pedaling!
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"John Taylor" commented on SecretSpi's Blog ""Liking" ourselves to death?".
Fascinating, Susan. It's amazing how insidious the need for information that doesn't tell us much is. From 1980-1984 (interesting coincidence?) I lived in a place where we had no TV, and the daily papers arrived either one or two days late. In the ...
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"John Taylor" commented on Skylark's Blog "Teaching Troubles".
Skylark, I feel your pain and felt it in a job where the evidence we had to provide was nowhere near as detailed and nit-picky as teachers are asked to provide. Going through unnecessary hoops is neither constructive nor helpful for the child and ...
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John Taylor commented on Jen's picture.
Ooh - clicked the wrong button and posted half a comment. Your picture would fit some of the forest stories I tell. Strange places, forests, with minds of their own.
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"John Taylor" commented on Barry Walsh's Blog "Long Ride".
The very best of luck to you, Barry! It's a big challenge for a great cause. The work of youth clubs is critically important, and if we let them founder through lack of funds, we will reap the consequences. One I have been working in has recently ...
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"John Taylor" commented on Bunny Brown's Blog "To begin".
Welcome aboard, Bunny Brown! I think failure is generally where writing starts, whether it be our own or other people's. Writers get to share it around more than most people, which has to be good. And after all, success makes for boring stories. ...
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John Taylor commented on OnceUpon's Daughter's wall:
Happy birthday, daughter-of-mine in Leiden. xxx
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"John Taylor" commented on Skylark's Blog "Asking for help again....".
Now there's a title for your Motherhood articles, Skylark... The not-so-secret diary of an almost lady-like lady.
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"John Taylor" commented on Mcallan's Blog "I feel guilty!".
My blackbird lives in a tree - how boring is that? But her hubby sings wonderfully just outside my workshop. Blackbird song being one of my favourite sounds in the universe, I'm generally on their side in everything, and even have an old cassette ...
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"John Taylor" commented on Skylark's Blog "Asking for help again....".
:-) I can just picture her, Alan. And I can picture you and Mrs P...
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Five foot eight and a half
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33 Blogs...
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24th April 2012
On finishing 'Bother'
Children's writing, Bother in Burmeon
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25th March 2012A busy night over Andover
Sky, astronomy, mythology, fun 13 Comments -
19th March 2012Letting go
disability, care, independence 10 Comments -
7th March 2012Ten years on
Death, bereavement, writing, healing 18 Comments -
6th February 2012Beetlejuice
Publication, impatience 16 Comments
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by Skylark 15 days agoI've certainly got plenty of inspiration (!) but I wouldn't know where to start! -
by Skylark 16 days ago:-) I edited out a few other nuggets in order to keep within the word count. Mind you, you've read quite a few of them before as they often make it on to my fb status! :-)
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by CJ 3 months agoHello, formerly known a BJ! I decided it was time to step away from the pseudonym (she was always a far cooler character than me, anyway... ^^D) and use my real life nickname - the one my mum has called me since birth. She wanted to call me something terrible like Celicia, but Dad put his foot down and so I was called Claire. Then Mum insisted I had all the letters I could possibly have in my name (hence Claire Jayne), which she then shortened to CJ before I even left the hospital - and since then, it's stuck (although I will forever be Claire to my Dad!) :-) -
by Skylark 3 months agoYou're a man of mystery tonight, John. Where's your pic disappeared to? Hope it's not off misbehaving somewhere.....:-P
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by Squidge 3 months agoNo chance today unfortunately...but I shall look forward to some time tomorrow instead -
by Guero Davila 3 months agoThen why (or why) didn't you sit me down, wield some sort of torture implement and FORCE me to read him?? :-) It would have been a service. Can't tell you how much I'm enjoying The Last Werewolf (should finish it this evening) but it's light years since I've enjoyed discovering a new author as much. His back catalogue is now busy shoulder charging the rest of my to be read pile out of the way and muscling itself to the head of the queue. Yep. He's right up my strasse and no mistake -
by Guero Davila 3 months agoJohn, I can't find the reference, but...it was you who talked to me about Glen Duncan, yes? Otherwise my marblecake has been well and truly misplaced
