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Relaxing Productive
Image: Linis Bohman It was a productive weekend. I swapped my Saturday and Sunday routines around so I could have a lie on Saturday morning. I needed it—really needed it—and it paid off. When I arose the infernal tiredness had … Continue reading
A Busy Week
Image: Heavenawaits Busy; that about sums it up. Work, work, work but it’s been at a good pace this week so I’ve not been burning myself out as I have felt I have been doing recently. And I’m lapping up … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged articles, Day Job, insomnia, Reviews, royalties, Scruffy Dog Review, Sleep, Stella, Thanksgiving, Writing
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Back On A Creaky Wagon
Image: Byrion Smith I wrote some poetry last night, my first writing of any form for almost two weeks. It wasn’t great stuff but at least it was writing, as in, the pen transferring my thoughts onto the page. It … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Freelance, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Writing
Tagged album, Baccara Burning, CD, Freelance, gigs, Glasgow, Homecoming, laucnh party, Madness, Music, News of the World, plotting, Poetry, press release, Reviews, Scruffy Dog Review, ship launch, storyline, WIP, Writing
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Theoretical Reviews
Image: Lorne Thomson I don’t know about you but yesterday seemed to drag. It was ages before the morning was out of the way, and then when the sun came out for the afternoon it only made things worse. With … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged adverts, articles, Autumn, competition, Cowgate, Edinburgh, Fiction, Freelance, gig listings, gigs, live music, Madness, News of the World, press, Reviews, Sneaky Pete's Theoretical Girl, Weather, Writing
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Getting Suited Up
Image: designersuits.org.uk On Sunday I’ll have been married to Gail for six years. Six very long years if you were to ask her, so with that in mind, I’m taking her out to a very posh and sophisticated restaurant for … Continue reading
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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RTFM
Long day. Not so much with my workload, more so with the fact I have STILL got this damned cold. I’m still coughing and my head is still full of gunk, to the point where headaches are just something I … Continue reading →