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Dystopia :   a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.                 :  an antonym o f Utopia  a term coined by  Sir Thomas More   and figures as the title of                      one of his best known works , published in 1516, which created a blueprint for an                           ideal society with minimal crime, violence and poverty.    Wikipedia Dystopias are often characterised by   tyrannical  governments, environmental disaster, dehumanising  or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in many  fictional works  and artistic representations, particularly in stories set in the future and some of the most famous examples are  Aldous Huxley 's  Brave New World  (1932),  George Orwell 's  Nineteen Eighty-Four  (1949), and  Ray Bradbury 's  Fahrenheit 451  (1953).  Many sub-genres of fiction use Dystopian Societies to draw attention to politics, economics, religion, psychology, science, ethi

 Ten months since I last posted on here.  Ironically, writing that I ought to have been keeping a daily diary since the beginning of the year 2020   Write-Place March 2020   Looking back at this blog since I started writing it in 2008, there have been a number of times that I have returned to writing a more regular, sometimes daily post, with various reasons for being inconsistent previously and also various reasons for making a pledge to be more consistent.   I realise now that it is irrelevant whether I post weekly, monthly or 6 monthly. The important thing is that I write - however diverse the categories, length or form the writing is.  Not that I have not been writing, this past year. Erratically, over the the weeks and months I have worked on numerous ongoing projects - a novel, a follow up biography, poetry pieces and travel writing - but never quite finishing one piece.  Editing and publishing a family member's biography was a pleasant respite from using my own thoughts and