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Tag Archives: rejections
Beer and Curry Medicine
Image: Curry Council Intensity Lull After the intensity of my blogging at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival, September feels quiet, low and almost uninteresting on the availability of things to write about. It’s a lull that happens each year; one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged 9/11, Animals, Bannerman's, beer, beer and curry, Book Festival, Books, change, contributors, curry, Day Job, dialoge workshop, Edinburgh, Editing, egotism, Leith, Malt and Hops, pets, Rab Howat Band, rabbit hutch, Rabbits, Raj Restaurant, Ranfurly Review, Reading, rejections, Submissions, The Shore, whisky, Writing
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Achieving a Balance in Literary Magazines
Image: Eden Arts Finding the Time That’s me on the full 8am till 5pm day shift for the rest of the week—the holiday is over. What it means is I lose time on other projects because I don’t have time … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged application, City of Literature Trust, Day Job, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Editing, Haiki, literary magazines, literature, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, rejections, Story Shop, Submissions, time, Trees for Life, Writing
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I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Image: Unknown Saturday did not go as planned. The intention was quite simple: nip up town, buy a DVD, grab some coffee and read the paper. All went well until I tried to the buy the DVD, which I required … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, Bevvy, Bill Clegg, Books, coffee shop, DVD, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, film critics, films, funeral, Hannibal Smith, night out, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, publication, Reading, rejections, The A-Team, The League of Ordinary Gentleman
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In The Groove
Image: Dave Bleasdale It was one of those days where the more small items I managed to tick off my GDR list, the more of the bigger ones followed on thereafter. By the end of play late in the evening, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Interviews, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Editing, Fiction, GDR's, Globespan, Hen weekend, Interview, manuscripts, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, rejections, rewriting, Submissions, websites, Writing
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The Big Yin Comes Home
Image: BC I actually forgot to blog on Saturday morning. When I got up, I got tore into my “to-do” list for the day and stayed in the zone all day, and I just forgot to do it. When I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Glasgow, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Theatre, Writing
Tagged Aramadillo, Blogging, competitions, curry, design, Edinburgh's Hogmanay, evening out, Football, Glasgow Billy Connolly, M8 motorway, Madness, Reading, red wine, rejections, Scruffy Dog Review, SECC, Sport, St Mirren, steak dinner, Submissions, The Pixies, websites, Writing
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The World Is Full Of Numpties
Image: FruitFly I found myself dealing with more numpties than I would normally expect to during my day job, yesterday. I mean, one has to wonder where we get the staff from at times. On one hand it boosts my … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Freelance, Interviews, Photography, Poetry, Reading, Sport, Writing
Tagged acceptances, Day Job, e-zine, Editing, Fiction, flash fiction, Freelance, GDR's, idiots, Internet, League Cup, numpties, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Reading, rejections, Scottish football, security, St Mirren, Submissions, The Leither, Website, Writing
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Mitchell, Webb and Galbraith
Image: The Sun Did anyone else choke on their cornflakes yesterday morning when BBC News announced that the Taliban have called for a human rights investigation into a recent air strike in Afghanistan? HUMAN RIGHTS—THE TALIBAN—there’s two phrases you wouldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Freelance, I.T., Interviews, Music, Writing
Tagged Afghanistan, Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, Human Rights, Internet, Interview, live music, Mitchell and Webb, PHP, Ray LaMontagne, rejections, short story, Submissions, Taliban, The Observer, Usher Hall, web development, webcast, Website, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The Publishing Cycle
Image: Franklin Regional Middle School The advent of yet more school holidays has seen me working my day job mornings from home this week. Honestly, the amount of holidays kids in Edinburgh get leads me to conclude why a large … Continue reading →