Tag: Life stories
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How My Journey As a Professional Writer Began
I started my journey as a professional writer back in 2008. I was studying Finance & Investment Management at Northumbria University, and as part of that I Set up an investment blog called Gray’s Investment Blog where I would write up company reports, detail my investment journey, and offer my thoughts and opinions on the…
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How A Systematic Failure By The NHS And The Lockdown Closure Of The NHS Caused Me to Lose Complete Use of My Hands
In 2020, I had no use of my left hand and had only extremely limited use of my right hand. To cut a long story short on how this happened, in 2008, I suffered a partial tear in the scapholunate ligament of my right wrist.I was supposed to have a full repair job done on…
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The Story of My First Blog – Gray’s Investment Blog
Gray’s Investment Blog was my first foray into the world of professional writing. I set it up by chance in 2008 while studying a degree in finance and investment management at Northumbria University. I needed some inspiration to keep me researching the stock markets, and this became that inspiration. I would post all my research…
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Why I First Started Training in the Gym – and Why I Love Bodybuilding
I’m a big fan of bodybuilding, I suspect it was Arnold Schwarzenegger films that got me into it along with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone. Needless to say, I’m a big fan of 80s and 90s action films. But also I’m a big wrestling fan, and grew up watching Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold Steve…
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I Had a Go at Being a TV and Film Extra - Here’s What It Was Like
Over the years, I have acted in a number of things, from short films to theatre productions, to music videos, to TV series and even to feature films. That sounds much better than it is. The short films were local amateur projects, some even of my own making; the theatre productions were local and small-scale; the…
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I Must Finish – a Short Story by David Graham
This short story was inspired by my experiences writing fiction. If you want to know what it’s like being a writer, this story is it! Blurb: A story about an intense journey fueled by determination and an unrelenting pursuit of a goal.