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Broken Paramedic

The Least Worst Decisions

When I started blogging about healthcare issues over a decade ago, my motivation was to shine a light on the failings I had witnessed in over a decade working for an NHS ambulance trust. I managed that and was grateful Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 2 months25/01/2023 ago
Writing

Novel Blog #5: Unicorns, Wild Geese, Golden Snitches (or The Hunt for a Literary Agent)

It’s been several months since I finished my novel. It feels like a lifetime, but I have little to show for it aside from the satisfaction of having written a whole 85,000-word metaphysical fantasy story that almost no one has Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 5 months27/10/2022 ago
Lifestyle

Michael’s First Legal Pint

It’s hard to know what to say on a day like today. My nephew Michael would have been 18. After spending the last year writing about him in a fictional sense, it’s difficult to come back to the reality of Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 11 months15/04/2022 ago
Writing

Novel Blog #4: It’s World Book Day and I’ve Finished* Mine!

It’s World Book Day. At least, I hope it is, or I should probably expect a concerned phone call from my kids’ school after they went in dressed as Alice in Wonderland and a Nazgul from Lord of the Rings. Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 1 year03/03/2022 ago
Writing

Novel Blog #3: Milestones, Millstones, the Spectre of Uncertainty and the Destruction of Reality

I’ve just realised it’s been nearly two months since I blogged about my novel progress. It’s funny, over the weeks I’d thought of plenty of things to share about the experience so far (and honestly thought I had), but I Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 1 year06/12/2021 ago
Writing

Novel Blog #2: Long Covid vs Writing

When I decided to plunge naively into attempted professional authordom, I had originally intended to write a weekly blog to report my progress. However, it is only now, at the end of week three that I’ve found the time and Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 1 year24/09/2021 ago
Writing

Novel Blog #1: Distraction, Discipline and Writing in Wagars

It’s been a week since the kids went back to school and I’ve been able to resume my ambition to write a complete novel. It’s a running joke among writers that we are world-class procrastinators easily distracted by- ooh, squirrel! Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 2 years13/09/2021 ago
Lifestyle

When Life Gives You Lemons

Life. We’ve all got one. Until we haven’t. A succession of challenging life events has brought me to a tipping point. The last decade has seen the end of my ambulance career due to back injury, the death of both Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 2 years06/09/2021 ago
Computer and Video Games

How Odyssey Reignited My Passion for Elite Dangerous

This is my personal review of Elite Dangerous Odyssey, and I make no apologies that it is unambiguously positive. For me, Elite Dangerous has been revitalised and revolutionised by the addition of first-person gameplay to what was previously a vehicle-only Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 2 years23/07/2021 ago
Writing

The Shunned

Mallory watched as the man died. He wasn’t as old as his haggard face looked, but his 37-year-old body had been broken by the ravages of their forsaken existence. Each gurgling breath was weaker, less perceptible than the last. His Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 2 years11/07/2021 ago

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