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Tag Archives: 9/11
Beer and Curry Medicine
Image: Curry Council Intensity Lull After the intensity of my blogging at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival, September feels quiet, low and almost uninteresting on the availability of things to write about. It’s a lull that happens each year; one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged 9/11, Animals, Bannerman's, beer, beer and curry, Book Festival, Books, change, contributors, curry, Day Job, dialoge workshop, Edinburgh, Editing, egotism, Leith, Malt and Hops, pets, Rab Howat Band, rabbit hutch, Rabbits, Raj Restaurant, Ranfurly Review, Reading, rejections, Submissions, The Shore, whisky, Writing
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Eight Years Down The Line
Image: Tim Pearce I remember it like yesterday. It was a normal working day until an email from a friend on a day off, arrived in my inbox: “A plane just hit the World Trade Centre.” Most of us thought … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Writing
Tagged 9/11, Animals, bunnies, death, editorial, Family, Fiction, mass murder, mourning, Rabbits, remembrance, terrorism, Twin Towers, websites, World Trade Centre, Writing
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My Latest Epiphany
Life imitates art in the saddest of ways sometimes. A young girl has died in a swimming pool while on a Mediterranean island, reflecting almost exactly the tragic event that I am currently writing about in my novel, . When … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Freelance, Politics, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged 9/11, Editing, Fiction, Freelance, Great Britain, Non-Fiction, novella, novels, Submissions, terrorism, United States, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
A Bachelor’s Writing Life
Image: U-Handbag It’s a belter of a day outside. The sun is out, there’s no wind, and it puts me in mind to take a book out the back and read for the day. But there is work to be … Continue reading →