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USING A CREATIVE BRAIN

My writing journey first started from youth – my teens – a perfect storm of dyslexia mated to desire, writes subscriber Chris Clarke.

Dyslexia – like others – crippled my learning during my schooling years, or more precisely, my ability to convey the extent of my knowledge.

Then something happened, I met a girl, a girl that I remember was called Helen. She so moved my thirteen year old heart that I felt compelled to write her a poem, which I did, handing it to her during an opportune moment at school. It wasn’t until some time later that I realised that in expressing my emotions I hadn’t encountered the same obstacles I did when attempting to convey basic information. This started a decades long endeavour that led me on a journey through poetry, to short, literary fiction, to longer stories with more of a mainstream edge, to now, where I

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