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    What Brainstem?
    What Brainstem?
    What Brainstem?
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    What Brainstem?

    By Tracey Lee Hoy

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    Being a writer is a mad thing in itself, yet writing comes from some place inside which, if you weren’t mad in the beginning then you soon will be. The crazy thing is that writing often emerges along with a multitude of other thoughts, plans, worries and daily narratives.

    What Brainstem and Other Amusing Anecdotes is a collection of a few mad stories about everyday life – kids, husband, cats, and dogs amongst other things. We have a choice in life whether to laugh, cry or tear our hair out and having a good laugh sometimes is better than dwelling on the negative things that often happen to us and can definitely give us fuel to struggle on and to fulfil our dreams of true happiness. Look around you, life is more interesting than you realise...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTracey Lee Hoy
    Release dateJul 29, 2011
    ISBN9781465949233
    What Brainstem?
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    Tracey Lee Hoy

    Australian born, Author, Artist and Musician,Tracey lives with her family in the beautiful countryside of South Wales.Tracey's first edition of, Rhuddlan, first book in the Conwy series was first published by Authorhouse in 2007. Rhuddlan, Conwy, Padraig, and Galen's Child are now available in ebook format from most international distributors and Smashwords. The fifth and final book in the Conwy series: Caery's Gift should be available in 2020Other titles by this author are: Lilláen of the Lake, What Brainstem and Other Anecdotes, Illustrated Children’s picture book Cadwy's Haircut, and Writing was the Easy Part – a self-help guide to improving writing.Tracey's latest book is Isobel's Dreaming, was published on February, 10th 2019.

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      What Brainstem? - Tracey Lee Hoy

      What Brainstem?

      A Silly Collection of Short Stories and Articles

      © Copyright 2011 Tracey Lee Hoy

      Smashwords Edition

      Tracey Lee Hoy asserts the moral rights to be identified as the author of this Ebook.

      All content in this E-book unless otherwise stated is the sole work of the author and remains the sole property of the author and shall not be reprinted, copied, distributed, reposted, reprinted, shared or used without the author’s implicit permission and is legally protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

      For anyone with a mad sense of humour, including my Welsh friends.

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      ‘A little madness is a fine thing and gives licence for the lyrical…’

      Lyrical Licence

      Being a writer is a mad thing in itself, yet writing comes from some place inside which, if you weren’t mad in the beginning then you soon will be. The crazy thing is that writing often emerges along with a multitude of other thoughts, plans, worries and daily narratives. License for the lyrical is something I dreamed up to use to give me the freedom to use writing to express any kind of madness I desire. Lyrical is generally used to describe songs, but can be also used to describe poetry. Because I also write songs and play instruments, the lyrical is a nice way to describe even a mundane piece of work. You see? It’s all madness.

      The main source of madness is in life itself. The daily things that make life so difficult inspire a humorous writer to invoke the power of madness and within this madness, license to create the lyrical. Does that make any sense? I thought not, though the writers amongst you may cautiously acknowledge this.

      The humorous article is one of the most pleasurable and popular writing on the internet and is perfect for quick, mindless reading. This kind of writing truly borders on the inane, insane drivel that most normal people choose not to entertain. Things like, dust bunnies, cat’s poop, frivolous analogy, misfortune, strife, work and children are all good foundations for the humorous article. Seeing the funny side of life though, is sometimes problematic as some people don’t always get the humour of the funny side of a situation but one can only hope there are people out there on the same plane as one’s self.

      Do you remember those kids in your class who would smile or stifle a giggle or laugh when the teacher started shouting only to get themselves into more serious trouble than the kid that was being shouted at? Well…that was me, sometimes. And although the cane helped me to learn to stifle this urge somewhat, I still found it hard to contain my mirth at times – taking great delight in the warm, humorous side life offered and

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