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Robert Reid

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Robert (Bob) Reid grew up in Scotland’s beautiful border country. Hawick was home until it was time to go to university in Edinburgh. A degree and a PhD in Chemistry followed. It was in Edinburgh that Bob met and married Phyllis. Work opportunities took them south, and their son Simon was born in Cheshire and their daughter Charis some years later in Swindon. Highworth, near Swindon, became home in 1982. It still is home and has become a special place to Bob and Phyllis.
Bob’s career of forty years was initially in technical management, then general management and business consulting. Work generally took priority over creativity. Semi-retirement in early 2018 created the time, family and friends the encouragement, for Bob to develop his wri
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Something I struggled with. The first twenty pages of White Light Red Fire were completed in about 2000. It wasn't finished until 2019 when I …more
Hi John,

Something I struggled with. The first twenty pages of White Light Red Fire were completed in about 2000. It wasn't finished until 2019 when I was semi retired. Thinking back if I had been given this advice back then it would have been completed much sooner. "Write one page a day and by the end of the year you will have a 365 page book (366 pages some years.)" I would add to that advice - don't worry about the quality of each page just keep the story moving. You can tidy it all up during editing when you have the complete story. Hope that helps a little. Good luck with it.
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Robert Reid What an appropriate question at this time.

It is a mystery to me that after a stroke ( that I had in January) and after getting more increased mobility…more
What an appropriate question at this time.

It is a mystery to me that after a stroke ( that I had in January) and after getting more increased mobility since the stroke over 8 months - in the past month when I have been doing more exercise so my ability to walk any significant distance has reduced and my walking has become much more of a stumble.

It certainly is a mystery - not sure it would be a plot for a book unless my stumbling caused some other event to happen. (less)
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“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
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“I believe the red stone was kept under lock and key in the dungeon far below Aldene Castle. I know that in 1507, when the Eldest visited Aldene, he was concerned about something dangerous that was held in Aldene’s dungeon.”
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“In Esimore, Sulux was returning from tending to the herd as it grazed the summer pastures. The lone traveller was dressed in light blue clothing that shimmered white in the evening sun. The old prophesies had finally been fulfilled.”
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“It is all around us now, in one God-forsaken territory after another. Blood sacrifice in the name of a better future. Only the dead like Tollund Man have seen the end of it. All we seem to have learned so far is that such killing never ends, never will.”
Neil Oliver, Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past

“Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don't know what they want?”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“In order to understand how thousands of isolated cultures coalesced over time to form the global village of today, we must take into account the role of gold and silver, but we cannot disregard the equally crucial role of steel”
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“His gaze lingered on the ruins of the keep. Twenty-two years ago , he had made a promise in the shadow of those walls - a promise to uphold his family's claim to the throne.
In the end, he had done so much more than that. In the end, he had upheld his nation's claim to their kingdom.”
Robyn Young, Kingdom

“In so far as a story of the world can have a beginning, let it begin with Enheduanna , the first named poet.”
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