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Something in the Air
Image: Clive Woolls Sunday Breakfast My daughter and I braved the gorgeous sunshine of an Edinburgh morning to go out for breakfast yesterday. It was a lovely day and put one in a mind of Spring, but we will not … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Big Audio Dynamite, census, coffee shop, Costa, Edinburgh, Fiction, freelance writing, Glasgow, Jacqueline Wilson, Kindle, Louise Rennison, Norman MacCaig, novella, Poetry, revisions, Scotland, Scotland's Census, Sunday breakfast, The Confident Freelancer, Weather, Writing
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Man About the House
Image: class-tv.co.uk Walkies I took the bus way, way out to the south side of Edinburgh yesterday morning, to Cameron Toll in fact, then started walking back into town. It’s a several mile treck but it was perfect walking weather: … Continue reading
Broken Hearts (Fans)
Image: bbc.co.uk Being a St. Mirren fan doesn’t usually give one anything much to ever shout about. It sort of comes with the territory. Today, however, all that is different. Being a west-coaster in the land of mainly Hearts and … Continue reading
Posted in Freelance, Scotland, Sport, Writing
Tagged articles, cup final. Scottish football, eye test, frames, freelance writing, GDR plan, glasses, League Cup, Paisley, spectacles, St Mirren
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Designing The Promo Material
Image: Eternal Press/Colin Galbraith Shattered. I was up late last night doing the promotional artwork for my impending Stella marketing campaign. I’ve ordered a whole bunch of juicy stuff that I will be using to promote the book from one … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged competition, cover art, Day Job, design, e-book, Editing, flash fiction, freelance writing, gig review, Jean Michel Jarre, literature, marketing, Mods, News of the World, prizes, promotional material, publishnig, Quadrophenia, Reading, Stella, The Who, Theatre, Writing
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Jean Michel Jarre Glasgow Gig Pictures
Image: Synthtopia.com Hope you all enjoyed my special interview yesterday with Jenny Storm. If you missed it you can still read it here. My email broke again yesterday morning. This time it was at my end and nothing to do … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Writing
Tagged Clyde Auditorium, Day Job, electronic music, Family, freelance writing, gig, gig review, Glasgow, Jean Michel Jarre, live music, News of the World
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One Of Those Days
It was one of those days. Everything I started didn’t seem to follow through, and I ended up fiddling around trying to work out what was going wrong and getting bogged down with it all. Not good. I’m behind on … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Freelance, I.T., Politics, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged articles, charity, creativity, Fiction, Forth Rail Bridge, freelance writing, Hunting Jack, I.T., ideas, novels, redrafts, websites, Writing Process
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New Author Photos
MAJOR hectic day at work, mostly because I had so much to do with being off the next couple of days, but also because a friend of mine lost his father a couple of days ago, and I received a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Freelance, Reading, Writing
Tagged Amsterdam, author, Daily Writing Tips, freelance writing, images, Internet, leg, mailing lists, photographs
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Andrew Lloyd Webber Saves The Day
Because my doctor’s appointment was at half past eight, I went into work before 7am, then went back out to my appointment; all so I could get a desk for the day! It allowed me to get a few things … Continue reading →