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Tag Archives: review
GDR Annual Review 2011/12
My writing year runs from September to July, with August my month off to evaluate and plan. Usually I do this during and at the Edinburgh Book Festival, but it wasn’t to be this year. Here’s how I did… What … Continue reading
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Tagged annual, dreams, Goals, Goals Dreams and Resolutions, planning, Reading, Resolutions, review, Writing
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April Review of Work
Fiction * Complete BACCARA BURNING – done * Start revision of GATECRASH – IP * Send GATECRASH to beta readers – not done * Re-write DAFFODILS for Bloody Scotland competition – IP Poetry * Complete production of POEMS FROM A … Continue reading
Goals, Dreams, and Resolutions – December Plan
Fiction * Complete tidy up of SLICK and prepare final ebook formats * Final edits on BACCARA BURNING with beta-readers’ critiques * Submit BACCARA BURNING to publisher * Start work on polishing GATECRASH * Submit and recycle short fiction returns … Continue reading
Goals, Dreams, and Resolutions – November Review
Fiction * Complete BACCARA BURNING and send to “trusted readers” – complete * Complete full revision of HUNTING JACK – postponed till 2012 * Start work on polishing SLICK *NEW* – IP; on target * Submit and recycle short fiction … Continue reading
Making an Arse of It, Part 2
I’ve written before about how great the recently re-released debut album from Kid Canaveral Shouting at Wildlife is, and I’ve also mentioned how much I enjoy listening to singer/songwriter King Creosote. As luck would have it, both of them kicked … Continue reading
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Tagged Ali Wilson, arse, Bannerman's, beer, Blue Drill Hall, eBooks, Fiction, Finnegan's Wake, gig, Kid Canaveral, King Creosote, Leith, Liquid Room, live music, Music, Out of the Blue, Poetry, Rab Howat, review, The Dalry Lamas, The Rab Howat Band, Trees for Life, websites
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Goals, Dreams, and Resolutions – November Plan
Fiction * Complete BACCARA BURNING and send to “trusted readers” * Complete full revision of HUNTING JACK * Submit and recycle short fiction returns Poetry * Complete Leith chapbook manuscript * Scan illustrations for SILLY POEMS and prepare manuscript * … Continue reading
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Goals, Dreams, and Resolutions – October Review
Fiction * Complete BACCARA BURNING – not complete but penultimate revision well underway * Complete new un-named novella from SA course – stalled; placed in queue * Submit and recycle fiction – complete * Redraft new short fiction – not … Continue reading
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Freedom from the Mundane 
London Burning
Image: Guardian London Burning So—I doubt we will be hearing the much voiced stereotypical line: “isn’t Scotland such a violent place” from any English people in the near future. I am this morning utterly enraged and saddened at the devastation … Continue reading →