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Three Days Until NaNoWriMo
With three days to go until the big kick off, I find myself in an unusual position with regards to writing a fresh novel: I’ve two belting ideas. One is the idea I hinted at in my last blog post … Continue reading
A Fruitful Diversion
Image: Anders B. My weekend went nothing like I planned it. It all went wrong on Friday night and the crisis lasted until late last night, and yet – and YET – I still managed to have a highly productive, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Leith, Music, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Animals, cappuccino, coffee chop, Corstorphnie, Costa, Desert Island Discs, eBooks, Edinburgh, Editing, Fiction, gardening, half marathon, hard drive, hardware, HDD, house chores, ideas, Leith, Music, notebook, PC, PC World, Photography, photography studio, poems, revisions, thoughts, Twitter, wedding, Windows, Writing
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Keeping Balanced
Image: Metal Minnie I felt much better yesterday morning. I‘d got a great sleep the night before and was into work bright and early. Working early means I seem to get more done; less distractions and people sapping my time. … Continue reading
What If Moments
Image: Unknown Woke up yesterday with a bit of a cold; stuffed head and nose, sneezing, heavy eyes—you know they type of thing. Maybe I’m working too hard. Or more likely it was because I went to bed topless and … Continue reading
Zoolook
Nice and cold this morning – perfect for listening to my new CD, a re-order of an album I had on cassette tape many years ago, but have not heard since. Zoolook was always my favourite Jean Michel Jarre album … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, Music, Reading, Writing
Tagged articles, CDs, creativity, Day Job, Devon Ellington, Fiction, Freelance, housework, ideas, Jean Michel Jarre, Muse Conference, Music, Scruffy Dog Review, Weather, workshops, Writing, Zoolook
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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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Calton Hill Pt.1
Saturday was such a nice morning I took Laura with me when I went out. I had a couple of things I wanted to do in the morning, but I took out more time to take in a few other … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Reading, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Aquarium, Books, Calton Hill, Clint Eastwood, Edinburgh, Fiction, Film & TV, ideas, Jackie McCann, Leith, movies, Shopping, Tropical Fish, Walking, Weather, Writing
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Shaping the Idea
It must have rained heavily overnight. Large puddles had gathered on the corners of the roads, and our back garden gleamed with droplets on all the trees, the smell of an early morning dew rampant when I went out to … Continue reading
Posted in Freelance, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged articles, Fiction, Flu, Freelance, Gatecrash, GDR's, health, Hunting Jack, ideas, Non-Fiction, novels, Rabbits, Ranfurly Review, Reviews, Scruffy Dog Review, Slick, Submissions, Weather, Writing, Writing Process
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Oddness And Loveliness
An odd day. For some obscene reason I’m suddenly finding it difficult to rise from my kip in the mornings of late. It’s not like I don’t get up; this morning for instance, I got up later then normal and … Continue reading →