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What We Are
Image: Todd (Pennacook) It’s Friday and it’s October. The mornings are staying dark for longer and the evenings are getting dark earlier. Autumn is well underway and as I peer outside to the dim grey over Edinburgh’s spires and spider web doors, I see that it’s pishin’ doon. Scotland; it’s what we are. I went…
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Always The Innocents
Image: Brainstorm A bad day in Cumbria. 12 people dead and 25 injured by a coward who went on the rampage with a gun. As soon as I heard something was happening, and at the point only 3 were dead, my mind shot back to 1996 and the Dunblane massacre. Who’ll ever forget that day?…
Colin Galbraith
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Focussing On The Commitment
Image: Creaky Toe I worked through seven chapters of GATECRASH last night. The further I creep into the story the better it seems to get. Some of the writing, though, leaves a lot to be desired. One can tell it was written with speed in mind—quantity over quality—a side effect of NaNoWriMo if ever there…
Colin Galbraith
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Another Month Down
Image: Queen’s Uni The office was like a morgue yesterday. So many people took the bank holiday off as a holiday, it left the rest of us feeling rather depressed and hacked off that we were still in the office. Not to worry, next week I am off for a couple of days to go…
Colin Galbraith
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Bank Holiday Madness
Image: CV Library I had a lovely morning in Edinburgh yesterday. I arrived in town about 9:15am to find the streets deserted. Walking alone through Edinburgh when it’s like that is a real pleasure, and by the time I’d been for a coffee and read of the paper it seemed the only other people on…
Colin Galbraith
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The Keyboard and The Pen
Image: R!!Space I seem to be growing tiredness mushrooms on my eyes the further into this week I get. I’m starting the days off in great spirit, then as the day wears on and I start to get ground down, I go home with an aching back, lost sparkle and eyes sprouting with tiredness fungi.…
Colin Galbraith
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Reading List
Image: Annais Ferreira No matter how much I eat, I’m hungry all the time. Anything I consume seems to be getting processed quicker than ever, and the energy from it is being burnt up and expelled faster than my metabolism can handle. I just want to eat, but thankfully, I’m not ramming food down my…
Colin Galbraith
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Lollipops In The Sun
Image: Me Anyone who lives or was visiting any part of the British Isles over the past two days, will know it is no understatement when I say the weather has been nothing short of Mediterranean. Even today as I sit in my squalid office, I look outside and once again the skies are blue…
Colin Galbraith
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Blacklisting Short Story Writers
Image: Lunchtime Mama After Tuesday night up late working on the promotional material for STELLA, then Wednesday’s late one for a theatre visit with my wife, tiredness played a big part in my day yesterday. The day job dragged and I realised in the midst of it all that the week was dragging too. I…
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Good To Great
Image: Unknown Edinburgh is awash with blue skies as I sit down with my coffee to write this blog entry this morning. For a Monday, I’m feeling rather good about things and I think the weather looking outside my window may have something to do with it. Being a fan of the cold and rain,…