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Rod Duncan
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Writer. Writing mentor. Printmaker. Photographer. Lecturer. Dyslexia. Aphantasia. ADHD. PhD. Shortlisted for the Philip K Dick Award & the John Creasey Dagger. He/him.
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Ys Novels @ysnovels.bsky.social · 1d
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 2d
T' Curve, Leicester.
Architecture at dusk. Athena, a deco style once cinema. Curve, glass and steel and orange light. A plaza between them.
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 2d
I am so surprised.

This is my surprised face.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 2d
Just when I thought I'd got the hang of it...
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 2d
The history of Hellenistic Egypt would be a great deal easier for me to follow if its royal family had invented more than two names. You can only read about Ptolemy marrying Cleopatra so many times before the grey mist descends and you end up playing Candy Crush.
A bust of Ptolomy I against a black background.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 2d
Bought myself a pair of 'gardening gloves' yesterday. So far, nothing. What am I doing wrong? Do they need batteries?
A pair of brand new gardening gloves on the kitchen table. They are unbesmirched by any sign of actual gardening.
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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 4d
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lavietidhar.bsky.social Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 4d
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Books! Books! A ton of boooooks!
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks Rennie. Most of my Beta readers have heard bits of it read out at meetings of Leicester Writers' Club. So they know what they're getting themselves into.

I hope your TLC experience was good.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 9d
I'm in that strange time between sending the novel out and getting feedback from my kind Beta readers. This book is such a departure from my previous novels that I really don't know how it will land. So there it is, on the edge of becoming. A liminal space of autumn light.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 9d
Oh... that's good.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 9d
In an age where making that distinction is peculiar...
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 9d
An actual source from a peer reviewed academic journal? You are radically cutting against the general trend of just making stuff up.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 9d
Pumpkin Earth.
Breakfast doodle.
#Inktober
A sketch of a pumpkin - lined exercise book page, brown ink - has been roughly coloured in patches of blue and ochre-yellow - alcohol marker pen. The patterns suggest oceans and continents on a globe. The words 'Pumpkin Earth' have been scrawled around above.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 10d
Not only did this second-hand jigsaw puzzle have all the pieces, it had an extra bonus piece.
Closeup of a completed jigsaw puzzle with one extra edge piece lying on top. The puzzle picture shows an idealised Venetian cafe scene.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 10d
Fly agaric from our walk this morning.
The white gills of a fungi viewed from below are blushed red, giving a hint of the red top, which can't be directly seen. The grass and trees in the background are out of focus. Have we accidentally nibbled some of it, and is this ghostly landscape a hallucination?
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 10d
The pumpkin marks itself safe from Rod's breakfast.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 10d
Breakfast doodle
A rough sketch of a miniature pumpkin. Brown ink on a page of an exercise book.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 13d
I had to look that up. Thank you so much for introducing me to it.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 13d
Thank goodness for that.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 13d
I've seen orange cats. But never green.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 13d
I couldn't resist buying these. For art rather than soup. Let's see if they last as long as the ones I bought this time last year - one of which is still sitting on the shelf.
Two miniature pumpkins on the kitchen table. Orange and green. Small and delightful.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 16d
This evening in Glenfield.
Moon and streetlights. A quiet road. A thin veil of cloud.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 16d
This was not created by AI
The alphabet written out in dip pen on a small rectangle of card.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 19d
Happy October.
A bright orange pumpkin, wrinkled with age, against a mottled deep blue background.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 21d
Continually
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