Raymond G. Taylor
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Author living in Kent, England. Writer of short stories and poems in a wide range of genres, forms and styles. A non-fiction writer for 40+ years. Subjects include art, history, science, business, law, and the human condition.
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Left handed snail. Top Story - January 2025.
This may be a first. The first time that a new work of art has been publicly unveiled and announced to the Vocal Art Community. Please tell me if it is not, and other new works have been formally announced in this forum. Either way, I am delighted to present to you for the first time: Left-handed snail, 2025, freehand digital drawing. I drew this work yesterday evening, January 16, 2025. It is all my own work.
By Raymond G. Taylorabout a year ago in Art
Time to take on Kindle?
There are many things that I could wish the Vocal platform would do for us. Things like providing an easy-to-use backup of content, a csv download of stats, and new and better ways of organising stories into subject indexes without the need for endless copying and pasting. How feasible any of these things are, or what the folks at Vocal Media might think, I have no way of knowing.
By Raymond G. Taylorabout a year ago in Motivation
Soul not goal
My goal for 2025? My creative project, my vision, my new year resolution? Ha ha! You gotta be kidding. I don't do goals, I don't do master plans, I don't do new year resolutions and I sure as hell don't do project management 'shopping' lists.
By Raymond G. Taylorabout a year ago in Motivation
Wordle wonder
Why has this article about an online puzzle been put in the Writers community? Good question. I put the story here in Writers to make a point: playing this game can help a writer's word choice. Really? Only one way to find out if this is true and that is to give it a go.
By Raymond G. Taylorabout a year ago in Writers
OH, JEFF... The shortlist
What can I say? The results of this challenge have been nothing short of phenomenal. A few weeks ago, I posted a copy of Roy Lichtenstein, Oh Jeff I love you, with a suggestion to complete the story that the artist left hanging with the speech bubble words.
By Raymond G. Taylorabout a year ago in Writers
Roman and proud of it
Wasn't going to write a review of the feature film Conclave, and this was not intended to be one. Rather, this piece highlights some of the moments in the movie that I found particularly moving. I guess this amounts to a review but I have not weighed up the good and the bad. Just saying what I liked, and that the experience was much more enriching than anticipated. You can make up your own mind, if and when you go to see it.
By Raymond G. Taylorabout a year ago in Art
