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Tag Archives: DI Lennox
NaNoWriMo: Done, Dusted and Over For Another Year
It’s all over! NaNoWriMo is complete, at an end, finished, over, caput, at an end, over and done with. It is no more. Fin. And I completed the challenge! Tired and just a little surprised with the monumental effort it … Continue reading
Posted in NaNoWriMo, Writing
Tagged crime novel, DI Lennox, Fiction, NaNoWriMo, Scotland, thriller, Writing
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National Novel Writing Month: The Debate
This November will see the 19th annual National Novel Writing Month take place. Otherwise known as NaNoWriMo, the basic idea — if you haven’t heard of it — is to write 50,000 words of a novel in the 30 days … Continue reading
Posted in NaNoWriMo, Writing
Tagged Devon Ellington, DI Lennox, Ink in my Coffee, NaNoWriMo, plotting, pros and cons, Writing
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42: But What’s The Question?
Image: Tod Derick It seems like more and more of my posts are beginning with the words: “Busy day today!” What can I say? They have been! I got through a tonne of work with Stella and it looks like … Continue reading
Prizes Galore
Well I never won the PSH Poetry Contest last night, and I never even came close. The winning entries were superb and fully deserved their plaudits, though, and their work overshadowed mine by a huge margin. I did kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Poetry, Travel
Tagged anger, contest, Dany De Vito, DI Lennox, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Fiction, Lothian Buses, NaNoWriMo, novel, Poetry, prizes, PSH, Ranfurly, Rick Lupert, St Mirren, Writing
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Slick – A Full Novel
While it’s likely I’ll be present at the day job next Tuesday, today represents my last full day of work in this hole for 3 weeks and 1 day. Tomorrow I leave for my annual trip to Blackpool with my … Continue reading
It Ain’t So Bad
Slept in and had to get the trawler bus up Leith Walk through all the tram works as a result. Total nightmare. With all the tunnels and shafts underneath this city you’d think an underground system would be more appropriate. … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Freelance, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged A Friend to Die For, DI Lennox, Dirk Benedict, Drill Hall, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Editing, exhibition, Family, Fiction, gallery, Gatecrash, GDR's, Holiday, Internet, Leith, novel, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, rejection, Scotland, Scruffy Dog Review, Slick, Templeton Peck, The A-Team, trams, transport, Travel, Writing
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Blogging Break Over
Image: BBC Online It’s not that I’ve been too busy to blog over the past few days, I’ve just had nothing to say. I didn’t see any reason in filling up these pages just to tell you something meaningless, so … Continue reading →