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Bollywood and me

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 Indian movies Other than large music  scenes, my main downer for many of the  Bollywood movies  I have watched on  Netflix  is the ammount of slow motion action scenes some of the films use. They detract, in my opinion, the value of the film  because these stunts could never happen. A good example is in the Singham series where the hero picks up and throws a motorcycle, then runs and uses the motorbike as a ramp for doing a backward flip before kicking the villain

Circles

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 Being housebound Two nights ago, I had a dream where I was on a bus than was endlessly going travelling the same route, with no way of getting of the bus. I see this as my mind telling me that my life has become the same routine each day since my arthiritis has racked my body to the point some days I cannot get out of bed.

Netflix is the best

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The only streaming channel I tried several tv streaming  sites; the only one that woked for me is  Netflix   because they show older films, and series; most impotant their images have links to the shows

I can write a novel

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 I have plenty of ideas for a story Several years ago, I answered a question some of my colleagues in the writing community had asked many times - could I write a novel ? At first, the idea of writing over 40, 000 words for a story appeared impossible for me, but in the end, I only failed to achieve the goal because after two years of writing a story that started out as a short story of around 2,500 words I stopped my story at 38,000 words, but in my mind the story was not over. I stopped because I thought I'd never get the story to sell, so why continue? I am not seeking a publisher , I could take the prospect of writing a novel as a challenge to my ability to write .

The Ago of the Scam

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  Elon Musk We are in the age of the scam . At the beginning of  Bitcoin , people such as Elon Musk  were told they could make millions, and the can as they are the pinnacle of the pyramid and the people below pay into their funds, but, you and I are the base and we would never recover our input as long as we worked because in this system you only get paid by "conning" others to join. Did you realise this style of selling has been  banned  in the  UK  for more than 50 years? Few things are guaranteed in life, one is that if you try to join bitcoin, or any such project on the  Darknet  you will attract the  police  from all over the world as the money  goes to support arms deals and  terrorism . Other  scams  include the crazes for paying for a diet  and the need for a personal trainer. I researched diets when I was trying to lose wieight a few years ago, and found that I was doing naturally what...

Do I miss writing?

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  Things could have been worse Que sera, sera - what shall be, shall be. I won't deny my time as a writer  was hard on me, mentally, and sometimes physically on the days when my disability made writing painful. For the ammount I earned over the decade, I could have bought a fish meal each year of my decade. If I hadn't had the success of my science fiction series on Draft2Digital I would have given up long before I did; my e-book sales on Amazon were non-existant; even my bestseller only managed to sell one copy a year.

No more e-books for sale

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 I closed my Amazon and Draft2Digital pages This month, June 2022, I closed my sales pages on Amazon and Draft2Digital ; this is not a rash choice as it had been on the cards for years. I had friends telling me, for years, not to do this, but as usual my response hasn't changed over the decade since I began writing . I never earned enough for a cup of coffee a day, even at my height of popularity eight years ago.

Indian tv series

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  A fascinating history People's image, me included until last month, of Bollywood and the film industry in India is one of either movies of the Raj era of British rule, of massive musicals with a cast of hundreds of dancers. This is still the case, but there are a lot of other great things to see such as the thriller at the top of this post. The Fame Game is a tense sociological drama about the private life of a famed actress, and the impact her fame has on her family. Ghoul is a mini-series about an old spirit which takes over the person it debours, with a sub-plot of how a person's beliefs can be wrong in believing that the government is right for opposing change.