Category Archives: Stories

Untold stories

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

If one is asked the same question often enough, no matter how difficult, one sooner or later comes up with an answer that can be given without too much further thought. It may not be precisely the right one, but … Continue reading →

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Established

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

Two years ago, against all the odds, 15 Dark Angels wrote and published a collective novel. Keeping Mum was a project that could very easily have come unstuck, but it didn’t and we were rightly proud of what might even … Continue reading →

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In memoriam

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

It has become a cliché of the information age that we remember where we were when we learned of certain events, the death of JFK or John Lennon for example. On each occasion there was something so shocking in the … Continue reading →

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True stories

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

Last weekend we ran a The Stories We Tell workshop for a group of people who were returning to us for the third time. Of the many striking things about the weekend, the one that most remains with me now … Continue reading →

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Persian nights

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

I’ve known for a long time that the real reason I write this blog is to make meaning for myself. I tend to look for subjects in which I suspect there may be some unexplored sub-text – unexplored by me, … Continue reading →

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Webster’s Day

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Jamie Jauncey

When I was a student I lived with four friends on a farm about seven miles out of Aberdeen. Our landlord, who was the uncle of one of the friends, lived on another farm, a few miles away, and we … Continue reading →

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Five lessons

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

We never stop learning. A cliché, but only because it’s true, or at least should be. So I thought it might be instructive to reflect on a few personal highlights of the past year by asking myself what I have … Continue reading →

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Dark matter

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

I’ve been doing some pre-Christmas stock-taking. It’s not an inventory of goods, though the stock in question is certainly good, but of assets of a less tangible kind: the writing generated on Dark Angels courses throughout the year, which I … Continue reading →

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Big magic

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

There’s an extraordinary free newsletter that I have been following for a year or so, called Brain Pickings. I would describe it, somewhat inadequately, as a weekly compendium of excerpts from the best writing by the best thinkers, in the … Continue reading →

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The Weight

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

Sometimes you just have to start writing. I’m sorry if there’s a sense of déjà vu about those seven words, but this is another of those increasingly frequent days when as the (self-inflicted) deadline approaches I realise I have not … Continue reading →

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