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NaNoWriMo – A Pep Talk
I’m concerned that this year I’m being a little bit louche about NaNoWriMo. (In case you are unsure, this means: Oblique, not straightforward. Also, dubious, shifty, disreputable.) Thing is, after 12...
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Don’t Panic
Thanks, Wikipedia.. On Friday at work I had a bit of an epiphany. Then I had a lot of stuff to do over the weekend, mainly in terms of housekeeping and ensuring my sister celebrated her birthday, so I...
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Of Sheep and Selkies (and NaNoWriMo)
I spent the weekend with other people’s stories, editing and trying to work out a running order for the Homespun eBook. It felt nice to sit with them and give them my full attention, which will...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful
This week’s photo prompt was ‘thankful‘, to coincide with Thanksgiving in the USA. I am thankful for a lot of stuff, but I didn’t want to post pictures of all the friends, family and peanut based...
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It’s OK To Not Win Sometimes
About two years ago today, in the golden aftermath of NaNoWriMo, I decided to write a book every month for a year. About one year ago today, I had completed NaNoWriMo – with a manuscript I have yet to...
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What Inspires You?
Inspirational Image A couple of days ago I was nominated for the Very Inspiring Blogger award by the Book Polygamist, which was lovely – if a little unexpected, given the deterioration of the blog over...
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Libraries I Have Known
Today is National Libraries Day 2013, which naturally got me to thinking of libraries I have loved and lost. It won’t come as any surprise, I suppose, that I wouldn’t be the person I am if it were not...
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Novel In A Weekend
© jeffrey james pacres http://www.flickr.com/photos/jjpacres Not the weekend just past, or the weekend before that, but the weekend before that, I wrote another novel. Well, that’s not strictly true –...
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Where do you get your ideas?
© Adi Respati As a fiction writer I tend to feel like this is a stupid question, whilst as a journalist it feels amateurish and slightly redundant to ask it. Read their work and it’ll often become...
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Going For A Walk (March Pictonaut Challenge)
It’s Thursday, it’s 7.30pm, it’s Top of the Pops Pictonaut Challenge! This month, The Rogue Verbumancer (or Glempy, if you prefer) challenges the internet to write a thousand words on the topic of...
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Book Six Revisited
Book 6 in my mind. So, I was re-reading Book Six because in my mind there were sections of it that I might be able to remove and adapt into a story for a magazine submission. It turns out I was wrong...
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Public Service Announcement
If you are a Facebook user (and I do appreciate it is not everyone’s cup of tea), this post may be of interest to you. I recently found out via the always helpful Nicola Morgan’s author page that the...
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Edinburgh Literary Salon
By Kyle Bean (http://www.kylebean.co.uk/) This evening I am going along to a literary salon in Edinburgh to talk about 12 books in 12 months as part of a literary blog themed event. I think this sounds...
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Health Warning For Writers
Writing is a pretty sedentary activity, which is problematic because apparently this leads to IMMINENT DEATH (much like everything else in the world – let’s face it, everybody dies. Still, I will...
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Think Before You Write
I recently made a vow to start drafting things longhand. The main reason for this was I’d begun to worry I had been producing quantity at the possible expense of quality. 12 books in 12 months...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Fresh
Due to the nice weather we’ve been having, a lot of people have been posting pictures of icy drinks for this week’s photo prompt. I considered adding a gin and tonic to the list, but opted to go with...
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Taking Stock
Peanut butter and chocolate cake. Oh yes. I recently had a birthday, which was pleasant. I saw my family and some friends, added to my ‘to read’ pile and my gin collection, and I made a cake that...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – One Shot, Two Ways
‘Before taking a picture, Jeff studies his scene – looking at a shot horizontally and vertically to decide what orientation works best for his photograph.’ ME TOO, JEFF. Not only have I read some of...
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How to finish something
Do you ever feel like you’ve got so much to do that you’re forever catching up with yourself? I do. It’s got to the stage where my whiteboard of stuff to do (yes, I have a whiteboard with stuff to do...
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I’ve Made A Huge Mistake
I recently read a book called Becoming A Writer (bit late, you might say, but there’s always room for improvement). There is some great and very practical advice in there, but one suggestion that...
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