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New Characters and Old Friends
Image: MensMeditation I cannot believe how long this week is turning out. I’m sleeping again—always good when that happens—but I nearly tripped over my eye lids on my way to the day job yesterday morning—not so good—hate it when that … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Book Festival, Coffee, Day Job, dialogue, DIY, Edinburgh, friends, Holiday, insomnia, Madness, paint stripping, rain, Savvy Authors, Seton Sands, ska, Sleep, Writing, writing course
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Revving Up The Writing Engine
Image: F1 Rewind Okay, so I’m back in the saddle and things are in a low gear, but I’m building up revs. It takes a fair amount of will power to get back into the swing of things properly after … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Travel, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, Auld Reekie, birthday party, Blogging, charity auction, coffee shop, Day Job, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Family, gigs, Holiday, Indian food, Interview, Leith, Music, niece, Raj Restaurant, Rhodes, Savvy Authors, The Shore, The Sky Project, tickets, Travel, Water of Leith, West End, Writing, Writing Magazine
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Planning Out my Literary August
Image: EBF Today is an exciting day: the Edinburgh Book Festival tickets go on sale. The last think I wanted to do was sleep in and miss the 8:30am ticket office opening, the result being that I couldn’t get to … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Animals, Armed Forces Day, August, Book Festival, chapbook, Charlotte Square, cleaning, coffee shop, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Holiday, literary, London, planning, Poetry, rain, Red Arrows, Royal Mile, tropical fish tank, Writing
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Poems and Planning
Image: Natalie Roberts The strained headache I had all day wasn’t conducive to work but I fought through it. There was much head rubbing and the occasional pill dropped to get there, and in the end I made some good … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Apple, Blackpool, chapbooks, Day Job, eBooks, free ebooks, Fringe Fantastic, GDR's, gig, Glasgow, Greece, Headache, Holiday, iBooks, iBookstore, Jamiroquai, Jay Kay, Kindle, Music, planning, poems, Poetry, press releases, Publishing and Marketing, Rhodes, SECC, Silly Poems for Kids, Twitter, Writing
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Free Ebooks on Twitter
Image: MadrasGeek.com I’m fast approaching my 1000th Twitter follower, and as a show of thanks, not to mention a heightened sense that there’s a marketing opportunity somewhere in here, I’m giving away all my published books as e-books to whoever … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged competition, eBooks, fake falling, GDR's, Holiday, Kolymbia, Rhodes, summer, Twitter, vacation, Video, Writing
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No Such Thing as a Free Holiday
Image: Villas in Algarve HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WEE SISTER BINNY!!! And the Winner Is… For the last five days I’ve been getting unwanted phone calls to my mobile. At first it was a Stirling number calling me once a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Family, Photography, Travel, Writing
Tagged 5-star, Baccara Burning, competition, Fiction, Holiday, novella, script adaptation, script writing, winner, workshop, Writing
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Absolute Madness
Image: Disko Duck Behold, at the end of this post you will find a short slideshow of the best of my photographs taken in Portugal between the 17th and 31st July. Some are stupid, some are arty and some can … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Music, Photography, Writing
Tagged Edinburgh Book Festival, GDR's, gigs, Holiday, Madness, Mogwai, Music, NaNoWriMo, photographs, Portugal, Writing
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NaNoWriMo Possibility?
Image: Black Knight I mentioned yesterday that my wife only took a handful of photographs while in Portugal but the ones she did take were of a sunset. Well, I took some too, quite a few in fact, which is … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Travel, Writing
Tagged Algarve, crime fiction, dreams, Every Day Poets, Fiction, Freddie Starr, GDR's, Goals, Holiday, Photography, planning, Poetry, Portugal, publication, Resolutions, story inspiration, Writing
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Moving Up The Gears
Image: ralphbijker Still struggling to get myself back into sync. I feel totally lackadaisical and uninspired with everything except literature. Call it the holiday blues without wishing I was actually back there by the pool. I’m still on a high … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Travel, Writing
Tagged Albuifera, Algarve, Animals, bull fight, Day Job, Edinburgh Book Festival, emails. blogs, GDR's, Holiday, holiday blues, Old Town, Portugal, Shopping, Vilamoura, Writing New Year
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Back From Rhodes and Ready to Rock
Image: Faliraki-Info.com Hello everyone and welcome back to Freedom from the Mundane! I’ve been gone for over three weeks, quite a long time in the blogging world but then again, needs must. I’ve been away on holiday, recharging my batteries … Continue reading →