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[Story Time] repercussions of daydreaming

March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 nesskingsley

When you've spent half your life with your nose in a book and your head in the clouds, your sense of proportion, social settings, and - alas, to my cost - brain-to-mouth filter sometimes malfunction.

Tagged bit of a ramble, daydreaming, driving test, life, lions, zombie2 Comments
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the bookworm’s guide to makeup

February 6, 2017March 8, 2017 nesskingsley

The eyeliner is not a sword, she is not a Viking, and her waterline is no monastery full of monks.

Tagged bookworm, how to, makeup, reading7 Comments
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resolutions that we can keep

January 7, 2017 nesskingsley

There is a difference between saying 'I'm going to swim thirty lengths at the swimming pool' and announcing 'I'm going to swim across the English Channel. Nay. THE INDIAN OCEAN!'

Tagged goals, life, reading, resolutions, writing9 Comments
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how to avoid distractions and write

December 29, 2016July 20, 2021 nesskingsley

Writing is a part of me. Like my tailbone or unibrow.

Tagged balance, distractions, life, living, reading, work, writing9 Comments
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podcast // unhappy ever afters

December 6, 2016December 6, 2025 nesskingsley

It wasn't the worst of my ideas, but the rather incoherent enthusiasm that followed certainly proved that it wasn't one of my best, either.

Tagged books, Charlotte Brontë, found treasure, grace livingston hill, podcasting, rambling, reading, rosemary sutcliff, the mark of the horse lord, villetteLeave a comment

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