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Send us Fan Mail 021  Emptying your mind gives clarity of purpose but we cease to exist without our minds. How do we do this, then? #Philip26Bradbury 21st Jan 26

Send us Fan Mail 022  Logic and ego are rooted in the past and spirit in the future. #Philip26Bradbury 22nd Jan 26

Send us Fan Mail 023 Doing things in our own strength means we miss out on great ideas, its harder work and we usually procrastinate. #Philip26Bradbury 23rd Feb 26

Send us Fan Mail 001 #Philip26Bradbury 1st January 2026 on the edge of several opennesses - - what does 2026 bring you?

Send us Fan Mail 002 #Philip26Bradbury 2nd January 2026 A little trip ...

Send us Fan Mail 003 #Philip26Bradbury 3rd January 2026 and not feeling like doing this podcast ... already!

Send us Fan Mail 004 #Philip26Bradbury 4th January 2026 and noticing magic makes more magic

Send us Fan Mail 005 #Philip26Bradbury 5th January 2026 and the world's mad, has always been mad and will always be mad.…

Send us Fan Mail 006 #Philip26Bradbury 6th January 2026 and 2 mysteries - one unresolved and one being resolved, slowly

Send us Fan Mail 007 #Philip26Bradbury 7th January 2026 and has this become an information-sharing highway?

Send us Fan Mail 008 #Philip26Bradbury 8th January 2026 ... onions, AI & how to manipulate your world

Send us Fan Mail 009 #Philip26Bradbury 9th January 2026 and how we know we are healed?

Send us Fan Mail 010 #Philip26Bradbury 10th January 2026 and how to make a difference ... without really trying.

Send us Fan Mail 011 #Philip26Bradbury 11th January 2026 Finding your life purpose without really trying.

Send us Fan Mail I published 2 books on 1st August - one a novel by me and one a non-fiction by Teresa J Bird and I - and though the first was started 8 years ago and the 2nd 2 months ago, they encompass the same theme, coincidentally.  Scars Could Love is a thriller/romance novel is about a solo mother, and her 13-year-old daughter, who has been abused and finally stands up for herself and her co...

Send us Fan Mail I've just finished writing my 23rd book, Scars Could Love, and people tell me I should make videos to promote it. However, writing is not a spectator sport so I had to become imaginative and create a series of videos about the life of writers ... well, this writer, anyway.

Send us Fan Mail https://www.philipjbradbury.com/ Telling is when the author summarizes or uses exposition/description to simply tell the reader what is happening. Showing is about using description and action to help the reader experience the story.   Example 1:  TELLING: When they embraced, she could tell he had been smoking and was scared.   SHOWING: When she wrapped her arms around him, the sw...

Send us Fan Mail https://linktr.ee/philipjbradbury For those who hate planning their book, here is the simplest way to plan your book - the plan you do when you're not planning. Planners tend to plan their books before they start. Pansters, on the other hand, tend to avoid planning until they get into trouble, usually near the end of writing their book. This is the worst time to do any planni...

Send us Fan Mail Don’t emphasise for emphasis https://linktr.ee/philipjbradbury Along with redundancy, one of Stephen King’s (whose books have sold more than 350 million copies) pet peeves is the overuse of adjectives and adverbs. After you’ve finished your first draft, he suggests, go back and take out 10% of what you’ve written – especially the adjectives and adverbs. They’re supposed to strengt...

Send us Fan Mail https://linktr.ee/philipjbradbury When inspiration hides, we can step away and wait till it returns. The alternative is to keep writing. Sometimes creativity needs help to arise and we've just keep writing to lever it out - writing the boring, uninspired words till they turn into inspired ones. Or writing nonsense for a while, till that nonsense opens our minds and lets in so...

Send us Fan Mail https://linktr.ee/philipjbradbury If we aren't clear about our descriptions, especially when there's a change of time and/or location, readers disengage with our writing. Like radio announcers, we only have our words to hold our readers. We know what we're writing about but our readers don't. This is my first attempt at describing my commute to work - an hour&a...

Send us Fan Mail https://linktr.ee/philipjbradbury Make your story structure fit the way we live, so readers will engage more with your novel, short story, memoir or non-fiction book. And a story including the first 3 stages of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey is below: CHANGING GLORIA SOAMES Arthur Soames had a wife whose movements he could predict with unnerving accuracy: Monday – vacu...

Send us Fan Mail Wisdom, senility, nicotine, fluoride and standing for Truth ... everything we've been told is bad for is actually good for us and vice versa. https://www.philipjbradbury.com/ https://linktr.ee/philipjbradbury

Send us Fan Mail You can't do anything wrong ... just do something and it'll turn out right

Send us Fan Mail When we attach to a truth we eliminate all other possibilities ... we limit ourselves. "Truth" is a blinder and stops us seeing other possibilities. It limits our creativity.