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Tag Archives: characters
A Trip to Porty
Image: Undiscovered Scotland Two Halves On the weather front, it was a weekend of two halves: on Saturday, Edinburgh was enshrouded with cloud apart for a brief part of the afternoon when the sun came out. It was warm and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Websites, Writing
Tagged book festivals, bookmarks, Books, boudoir, bus, business cards, characters, Coffee, coffee shop, crime fiction, design, driving school, Editing, essay, Fiction, fog, muggy, novella, Poetry, Portobello, Porty, Princes Street, promo, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, rain, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Silly Poems for Wee People, The Sky Project, thriller, tramworks, Weather, websites, Writing
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Strong Characters Make Strong Stories
Image: iBug Quack An early doctor’s appointment yesterday morning meant I was up at my usual time – actually that’s a lie – I was up earlier than normal to make up for the loss of time towards BACCARA BURNING … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, chapbook, characters, cinema, coffee shop, Costa, Devon Ellington, Editing, Family, Fiction, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, John Wayne, newspaper, Omni Centre, Poetry, revisions, sister, True Grit, Westerns, Writing
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Eat Your Heart Out Leslie Nielsen
Image: The Sports Hernia Until last night I hadn’t shaved my hair for 11 consecutive days. For me, this is quite a record. I’m a skinhead, and normally shave back my hair to the bone every 4 or 5 days … Continue reading
Posted in Books, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged 100 Club, bald, Books, characters, Christopher Lee, computers, hair, I.T, Leslie Nielsen, live music venue, London, money savers, Music, Oxford Street, plotting, Reading, Savvy Authors, shaving, silver fox, skinhead, structure, Submissions, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, websites, Wordpress, workshop, Writing, writing competition
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The Great Addiction
Image: Zaldylmg I felt really good today. Good about the novel, good about my submissions, and good about life. Talk about the ups and downs of writing a novel? Man, I’ve been all over the place this November; bi-polar moods … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Writing
Tagged characters, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Leith, literature, NaNoWriMo, novels, Writing
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Got To Keep Focussed
Image: Star Dust I couldn’t sleep last night, and today I paid the price; heavy eyes and a grumpiness not seen since someone stole Stig of the Dump’s toilet seat. I wish that life could be simpler sometimes, but despite … Continue reading
Doherty In The Doldrums
I neglected to mention how the British justice system has finally got its finger out and done something good by jailing that complete tosser, Pete Doherty. This is a man (sic) who has gotten away way with so much purely … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Freelance, Reading, Sport, Writing
Tagged articles, characters, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Football, novel, Pete Doherty, Rangers, Slick, UEFA Cup, Wormwood Scrubs, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Conscience And Art
Image: Macnolete I sent off the rest of my submissions on my pending list. Stories that have come back from publications, have been turned around and were ready to go back out. I just never got around to it. I … Continue reading →