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Tag Archives: Research
Researching the Paranormal
Image: The Sun Very tired yesterday. My eyes felt swollen in their sockets and I was unable to concentrate much for the early part of the day. I thought a good coffee would sort me out, but that just gave … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Poetry, Travel, Writing
Tagged 3 Ebook deal, adventures, Clayton Morris, Coffee, crime fiction, eBooks, Family Guy, Fiction, free, free books, free ebooks, Headache, Jim Harold, novella, paranormal, podcasts, Reading, Research, The Paranormal Report, thrillers, tired
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Research Trip and July’s GDR Plan
Image: School of GeoSciences Today I’m heading off on a research trip. An actual trip! With a couple of days away from the day job I figured I’d use the time productively now that the bulk of my writing tasks … Continue reading
A Scottish Summer
Image: Unknown The weather was somewhat unpredictable yesterday. When the wind blew, it blew hard and cold then calmed as fast as it had picked up. The rain followed the same pattern; sudden downpours, hard and cold, the nothing. In … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Scotland, Writing
Tagged baby, coffee shop, crèche, Cumbria, curry, Day Job, Edinburgh, friends, Indian meal, kids, Prince Balti House, rain, Research, Scotland, Scottish summer, Wallyford, Weather, Writing
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Major Thomas Weir
Image: The Punch Pizza I had six hours of sleep before I had to log back into the Company network to complete yesterday’s marathon software installation. It felt like I’d had half an hour. Thankfully, it all went reasonably well, … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Anderson Close, birthday, Cowgate, crime, Day Job, Devil, Edinburgh, Editing, Family, Fiction, ghost, Grassmarket, history, Major Weir, meal, pizza, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, rejection, Research, Sleep, West Bow, witchcraft, Writing
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Charging Up The Inner
Image: mangpage I had an excellent weekend; just what I needed to relax me, stimulate me, and provide a watershed between what was a pretty dire month and what I want to do with March. I’ll talk about how each … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Sport
Tagged Edinburgh, Editing, Family, GDR's, Italy, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Research, rugby, Scotland, Six Nations, Writing
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My Weekend
Image: John McTarnaghan I hope you all had a great Valentine’s weekend whatever you chose to do – and whoever with. Gail and I had a nice time yesterday. Our initial plan had been to drop Laura off at her … Continue reading
Dark Dreams And Research
Image: Massimo Faccini I had some really weird dreams last night. Dream #1: I’m in a house by the sea. It’s on stilts so not easy to get off in an emergency. Typical then, that there had been a national … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Canongate, dreams, Edinburgh University, Fiction, NaNoWriMo, novels, NUS, Photography, Research, Saughton Prison, Writing
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Tying Up The Month
Image: Jerry Daykin First half: reading and researching. I was up at the crack of dawn and sorted for the day before anyone else in the house was even on their penultimate roll over in bed. Laura had her pal … Continue reading
Freedom from the Mundane 
People Power
Image: David Chief How great it is to see the voice of the people being listened to for once. Forth Ports wanted to change the name of Leith Docks to Edinburgh Harbour as part of their expansion and development plan. … Continue reading →