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Rod Duncan
@rodduncan.bsky.social
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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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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
Oh... that's good.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 4d
In an age where making that distinction is peculiar...
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
The pumpkin marks itself safe from Rod's breakfast.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 8d
I had to look that up. Thank you so much for introducing me to it.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 8d
Thank goodness for that.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 8d
I've seen orange cats. But never green.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 11d
This evening in Glenfield.
Moon and streetlights. A quiet road. A thin veil of cloud.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 11d
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 · 14d
Happy October.
A bright orange pumpkin, wrinkled with age, against a mottled deep blue background.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 16d
Continually
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 16d
What to do with a trimmed edge of paper
A strip of paper with a line of swan sketches in brown ink.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 16d
Very cool
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 17d
Still life on the breakfast table.
The surface of a mottled green kitchen table. A green egg cups contains the remaining shell of an egg, jagged edged. The long shadow of the egg cup stretches diagonally across the image. A shadow of some other edge follows the same line across the image, making the lower right dark. Perhaps someone has just eaten breakfast in the sun.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 18d
My father as a young man, apparently learning to fly.
Black and white image. A man dressed for judo appears to be suspended a metre above the ground.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 18d
I've been diverted onto The Bazaar recently. Not so well balanced as the Spire. But much fun.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 22d
Leaf update from this morning's walk. Yes, it was still there. I guess it can't have been that windy in the last 2 days.
A dead leaf on the tarmac. For reference, see the alt text from the previous post. The light is sharper today. A higher contrast image that seems more about textures than a subtle play of colour. The same individual leaf in a uniquely different moment.
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Rod Duncan @rodduncan.bsky.social · 22d
All part of the master plan.